Test 6 · ★ · Book of Dragons, The Last of the Dragons, part 8: a dragon…
Gutted, did Towser actually bite a dragon in the garden?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Towser · What happens: gut, bite · To what, where: dragon, garden
This is test 6 · ★ 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 | Gutted | gut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 bite | punct |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 bite | aux |
| 4 | Towser | Towser | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 bite | nsubj |
| 5 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 6 bite | advmod |
| 6 | bite | bite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Gutted | advcl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 dragon | det |
| 8 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bite | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 garden | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 garden | det |
| 11 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bite | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Gutted | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gut | participle | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | bite | past · do-support | Towser | a dragon | the garden | actually property | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent dragon=Patient in garden=Location |
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
no, the dragon bit Towser on the tail
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 bit | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 no | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 dragon | det |
| 4 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bit | nsubj |
| 5 | bit | bite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Towser | Towser | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 bit | obj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 tail | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 tail | det |
| 9 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bit | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bite | past | the dragon | Towser | the tail | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent towser=Patient on tail=Location |
Option 2
no, Towser just barked
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 barked | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 no | punct |
| 3 | Towser | Towser | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 barked | nsubj |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 barked | advmod |
| 5 | barked | bark | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bark | past | Towser | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
yeah, Towser bit it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 bit | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yeah | punct |
| 3 | Towser | Towser | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 bit | nsubj |
| 4 | bit | bite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 bit | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bite | past | Towser | it | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
no, the dragon bit Towser
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 bit | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 no | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bit | det |
| 4 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bit | compound |
| 5 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | Towser | Towser | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 bit | appos |
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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