Test 13 · ★ · Book of Dragons, Uncle James, or The Purple Dragon, part 6…
Who's the magician that listens at doors, innit?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: magician · What happens: be, listen, innit · To what, where: magician
This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 638 «Book of Dragons, Uncle James, or The Purple Dragon, part 6: the dragon's birthday plot is revealed and the Princess is offered as a present» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.
The question
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 magician | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 magician | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 magician | det |
| 4 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 listens | nsubj |
| 6 | listens | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 magician | acl:relcl |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 doors | case |
| 8 | doors | door | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 listens | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 innit | punct |
| 10 | innit | innit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 magician | conj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 magician | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the magician | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | listen | present | the magician | at doors | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at door=Theme | ||||
| 3 | innit | infinitive | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Tom
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Uncle James
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Uncle | uncle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | James | James | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Uncle | flat |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
the Princess
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Princess | det |
| 2 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Fido
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fido | Fido | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.
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