Test 5 · ★ · Book of Dragons, The Last of the Dragons, part 8: a dragon…
Peak, was the dragon in the boot like the size of a kitten?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Peak · What happens: be · To what, where: dragon, boot
This is test 5 · ★ 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 | Peak | peak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dragon | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Peak | punct |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 dragon | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 dragon | det |
| 5 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 boot | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 boot | det |
| 8 | boot | boot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dragon | nmod |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 11 size | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 size | det |
| 11 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 boot | nmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 kitten | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 kitten | det |
| 14 | kitten | kitten | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 size | nmod |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 dragon | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Peak | the dragon | the boot like the size of a kitten | tree rules |
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 right answer
yeah, about that big
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 big | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 big | punct |
| 3 | about | about | ADP | _ | 5 big | case |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 big | nsubj |
| 5 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
nope, more like a rat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nope | nope | INTJ | _ | 3 more | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nope | punct |
| 3 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 4 | like | like | ADP | _ | 6 rat | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 rat | det |
| 6 | rat | rat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 more | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
yeah, about that big, like a kitten
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 big | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 big | punct |
| 3 | about | about | ADP | _ | 5 big | case |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 big | nsubj |
| 5 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 kitten | punct |
| 7 | like | like | ADP | _ | 9 kitten | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 kitten | det |
| 9 | kitten | kitten | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 big | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
nah, it was more like a big dog
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 9 dog | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 dog | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 dog | cop |
| 5 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 9 dog | advmod |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 9 dog | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 dog | det |
| 8 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 dog | amod |
| 9 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | it | like a big dog | 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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