Test 7 · ★ · Book of Dragons, The Last of the Dragons, part 8: a dragon…

Is it true the papers finally said dragons, cos the editor got nabbed?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: it, papers · What happens: be, say, nab · To what, where: dragons, editor · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 true	nsubj
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 papers	csubj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 papers	det
5	papers	paper	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 said	nsubj
6	finally	finally	ADV	_	7 said	advmod
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	dragons	dragon	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 said	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 nabbed	punct
10	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	14 nabbed	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 editor	det
12	editor	editor	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 nabbed	nsubj:pass
13	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 nabbed	aux:pass
14	nabbed	nab	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 said	conj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	it		true property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the papers	dragons	finally property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent dragon=Topic
3	nab	past · passive		the editor		vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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

nah, they kept lizards

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 kept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kept	nsubj
4	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	lizards	lizard	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 kept	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	they	lizards					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lizard=Theme

Option 2

yeah, the editor fled

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 fled	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 fled	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 editor	det
4	editor	editor	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fled	nsubj
5	fled	flee	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	flee	past	the editor						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

yeah, they finally said dragons after he got nabbed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	nsubj
4	finally	finally	ADV	_	5 said	advmod
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	dragons	dragon	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 said	obj
7	after	after	SCONJ	_	10 nabbed	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 nabbed	nsubj
9	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 nabbed	aux:pass
10	nabbed	nab	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 said	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	they	dragons				finally property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent dragon=Topic
2	nab	past · passive		he					vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, he got carried off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 carried	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 carried	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 carried	nsubj
4	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 carried	aux:pass
5	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	off	off	ADP	_	5 carried	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry off	past · passive		he					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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