Test 2 · ★ · Book of Dragons, Uncle James, or The Purple Dragon, part 6…

What got on everyone's nerves, like, proper bad?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: get · To what, where: nerves

This is test 2 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	6 nerves	case
4	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	6 nerves	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 everyone	case
6	nerves	nerve	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 got	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 bad	punct
8	like	like	ADP	_	11 bad	case
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 like	punct
10	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 bad	amod
11	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 got	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 got	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past				everyone's nerves			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on nerve=Source

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 · ✓ the right answer

the cracking tail

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 tail	det
2	cracking	cracking	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tail	compound
3	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

the dragon's endless questions at dinner

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dragon	det
2	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 questions	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 dragon	case
4	endless	endless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 questions	amod
5	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 dinner	case
7	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 questions	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	question		the dragon			dinner			nom question «communication transitive»: poss=agent at=place

Option 3

the wagging tail

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 tail	det
2	wagging	wag	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 tail	amod
3	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wag	gerund							vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

the elephant's trumpeting every morning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 elephant	det
2	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 trumpeting	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 elephant	case
4	trumpeting	trumpet	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 morning	det
6	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 trumpeting	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trumpet	gerund					morning		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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