Test 4 · ★ · Nine Unlikely Tales, The Dragon of Rotundia: the dragon is…

bro, what did everybody have to hold on to?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bro · What happens: have, hold on

This is test 4 · ★ 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	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 have	nsubj:outer
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 have	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 have	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 have	aux
5	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	6 have	nsubj
6	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 hold	mark
8	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 have	xcomp
9	on	on	ADP	_	8 hold	compound:prt
10	to	to	ADP	_	8 hold	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 have	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past · do-support	bro						tree rules
2	hold on	to-infinitive	bro not said here						vn exist-47.1 «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

each other

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	root	root
2	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 each	fixed

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

Option 2

their hats and bags

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 hats	nmod:poss
2	hats	hat	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 bags	cc
4	bags	bag	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hats	conj

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

Option 3

the rock and rails

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 rock	det
2	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 rails	cc
4	rails	rail	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 rock	conj

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

themselves, tight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 themselves	punct
3	tight	tight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 themselves	conj

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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