Test 4 · ★ · Book of Dragons, The Last of the Dragons, part 8: a dragon…

Wicked, so who did the knife-boy scream at when the boot went mad?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Wicked, boot · What happens: do, go · To what, where: boy scream

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	5 did	advmod
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 scream	det
7	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 boy	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 knife	punct
9	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 scream	compound
10	scream	scream	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	obj
11	at	at	SCONJ	_	15 went	mark
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 went	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 boot	det
14	boot	boot	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 went	nsubj
15	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 did	advcl
16	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 went	xcomp
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Wicked	the boy scream					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scream=Eventuality
2	go	past	the boot					mad property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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

the lizard that crawled out of the boot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 lizard	det
2	lizard	lizard	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 crawled	nsubj
4	crawled	crawl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 lizard	acl:relcl
5	out	out	ADP	_	8 boot	case
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 boot	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 boot	det
8	boot	boot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 crawled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crawl	past	the lizard			the boot			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out boot=Trajectory

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

the lizard in the boot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 lizard	det
2	lizard	lizard	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 boot	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 boot	det
5	boot	boot	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lizard	nmod

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

Option 3

the boot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 boot	det
2	boot	boot	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

the knife-boy's mum

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 boy	det
2	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 boy	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 knife	punct
4	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mum	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 boy	case
6	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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