Test 2 · ★ · Book of Dragons, The Last of the Dragons, part 8: a dragon…
Bruv, did Harry really find a newt in his tea, proper gross?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Harry · What happens: find · To what, where: newt, tea
This is test 2 · ★ 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 | Bruv | Bruv | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 find | vocative |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Bruv | punct |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 find | aux |
| 4 | Harry | Harry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 find | nsubj |
| 5 | really | really | ADV | _ | 6 find | advmod |
| 6 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 newt | det |
| 8 | newt | newt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 find | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 tea | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 tea | nmod:poss |
| 11 | tea | tea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 newt | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 gross | punct |
| 13 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 gross | amod |
| 14 | gross | gross | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 newt | conj |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 find | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past · do-support | Harry | a newt and proper gross | Harry's tea | Bruv vocative | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent newt=Topic |
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
yeah, an earwig
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 earwig | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 earwig | punct |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 earwig | det |
| 4 | earwig | earwig | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
nah, a tiny slug
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 slug | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 slug | det |
| 4 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 slug | amod |
| 5 | slug | slug | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
yeah, a tiny newt
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 newt | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 newt | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 newt | det |
| 4 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 newt | amod |
| 5 | newt | newt | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
nah, it was just a dead tiny moth
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 9 moth | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 moth | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 moth | cop |
| 5 | just | just | ADV | _ | 9 moth | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 moth | det |
| 7 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 moth | amod |
| 8 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 moth | amod |
| 9 | moth | moth | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | it | a dead tiny moth | 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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