Test 10 · ★ · Book of Dragons, The Last of the Dragons, part 8: a dragon…

Oi, which dragon ate the lilies of the valley, the little ones?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Oi · What happens: eat · To what, where: lilies

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 640 «Book of Dragons, The Last of the Dragons, part 8: a dragon in Effie's eye is followed by a plague of dragons across the land» 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	Oi	oi	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 ate	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 dragon	punct
3	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	4 dragon	det
4	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Oi	conj
5	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lilies	det
7	lilies	lily	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 ate	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 valley	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 valley	det
10	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lilies	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 ones	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 ones	det
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 ones	amod
14	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 lilies	conj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 ate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	Oi and which dragon	the lilies of the valley and the little ones					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lily=Patient

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 middle sized ones from the garden

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 middle	det
2	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sized	nsubj
3	sized	size	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sized	obj
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 garden	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 garden	det
7	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sized	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	size	past	the middle	ones		the garden			tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

one size of them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 size	nummod
2	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 them	case
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 size	nmod

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

Option 3

the mid-size lot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 lot	det
2	mid-size	mid-size	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lot	compound
3	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

the ones that were the size of cats

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 ones	det
2	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 size	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 size	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 size	det
6	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ones	acl:relcl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 cats	case
8	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 size	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the ones	the size				of cats	tree rules

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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