Test 5 · ★ · Nine Unlikely Tales, The Dragon of Rotundia: the dragon is…

so what did Uncle James forget to do?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Uncle · What happens: do, forget, not do

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 forget	nsubj
5	James	James	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Uncle	flat
6	forget	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	ccomp
7	to	to	PART	_	8 do	mark
8	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 forget	xcomp
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	do	past		tree rules
2	forget	present	Uncle	tree rules
3	not do	to-infinitive	Uncle not said here	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

tie the dragon's tail to a rock

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	tie	tie	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dragon	det
3	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tail	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 dragon	case
5	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 tie	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 rock	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 rock	det
8	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 tie	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tie	imperative	you not said here	the dragon's tail				to a rock	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent tail=Patient to rock=Co-Patient

Option 2

count all the hares in the warren

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	count	count	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 hares	det:predet
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hares	det
4	hares	hare	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 count	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 warren	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 warren	det
7	warren	warren	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 count	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	count	imperative	you not said here	all hares		the warren			vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hare=Theme

Option 3

tie the rope

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	tie	tie	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 rope	det
3	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 tie	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tie	imperative	you not said here	the rope					vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rope=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

hold on tight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	1 hold	compound:prt
3	tight	tight	ADV	_	1 hold	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold on	imperative	you not said here					tight property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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