Test 3 · ★ · Nine Unlikely Tales, The Dragon of Rotundia: the dragon is…

so what did the island do when the tail came loose?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: island, tail · What happens: do, come

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 639 «Nine Unlikely Tales, The Dragon of Rotundia: the dragon is wound up on the pillar, the island spins, and everyone changes size» 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	so	so	ADV	_	3 did	advmod
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 island	det
5	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 do	nsubj
6	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	parataxis
7	when	when	SCONJ	_	10 came	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 tail	det
9	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 came	nsubj
10	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 do	advcl
11	loose	loose	ADV	_	10 came	advmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	do	past			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	do	present	the island		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	come	past	the tail	loose property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

spun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	spun	spin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spin	participle							vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

drifted out to sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	drifted	drift	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	out	out	ADP	_	1 drifted	compound:prt
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 sea	case
4	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 drifted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drift out	participle				sea			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to sea=Destination

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

span like a top

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	span	span	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	like	like	ADP	_	4 top	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 top	det
4	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 span	nmod

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

Option 4

spun round and round the sea forever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	spun	spin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	round	round	ADV	_	1 spun	advmod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 round	cc
4	round	round	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 spun	conj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sea	det
6	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 round	obj
7	forever	forever	ADV	_	4 round	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spin round	participle						round property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	round	infinitive		the sea				forever property	vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent sea=Patient

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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