Test 11 · ★ · Book of Dragons, The Last of the Dragons, part 8: a dragon…

Mad, what did the County Council do with all the dead dragons?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: County Council · What happens: do

This is test 11 · ★ 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	Mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Mad	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 do	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 do	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Council	det
6	County	County	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Council	compound
7	Council	Council	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 do	nsubj
8	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Mad	ccomp
9	with	with	ADP	_	13 dragons	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 dragons	det:predet
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 dragons	det
12	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 dragons	amod
13	dragons	dragon	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 do	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Mad	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · do-support	the County Council					with all dead dragons	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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

sold them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sold	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 sold	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	past		them = they					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

cremated them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cremated	cremate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 cremated	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cremate	past		them = they					vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 3

destroyed them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	destroyed	destroy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 destroyed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	destroy	past		them = they					vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

burned them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	burned	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 burned	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	past		them = they					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=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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