Test 1 · ★ · Book of Dragons, The Last of the Dragons, part 9: Harry an…

Did Harry really think the sun was "dangerous" or just a bit of a laugh?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Harry, sun · What happens: think, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 641 «Book of Dragons, The Last of the Dragons, part 9: Harry and Effie seek St. George, fail to wake him, and are seized by a dragon» 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 think	aux
2	Harry	Harry	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 think	nsubj
3	really	really	ADV	_	4 think	advmod
4	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sun	det
6	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dangerous	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 dangerous	cop
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 dangerous	punct
9	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 think	ccomp
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 dangerous	punct
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 bit	cc
12	just	just	ADV	_	14 bit	advmod
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 bit	det
14	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dangerous	conj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 laugh	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 laugh	det
17	laugh	laugh	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 bit	nmod
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 think	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past · do-support	Harry						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is in a quote	past	the sun					dangerous property	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

Dangerous, but ace, and the exact reason they bolted

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 ace	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 ace	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	4 ace	cc
4	ace	ace	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 reason	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 reason	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 reason	det
8	exact	exact	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 reason	amod
9	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ace	acl:relcl
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 bolted	nsubj
11	bolted	bolt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 reason	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bolt	past	they	the exact reason not said here					vn gobble-39.3-1 «NP V NP up»: agent=Agent reason=Patient

Option 2

Dangerous, yet they bolted only after the dragon first came close to their gate

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 bolted	punct
3	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	5 bolted	cc
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 bolted	nsubj
5	bolted	bolt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Dangerous	conj
6	only	only	ADV	_	9 dragon	advmod
7	after	after	ADP	_	9 dragon	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 dragon	det
9	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 came	nsubj
10	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	11 came	advmod
11	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 bolted	ccomp
12	close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 came	advmod
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 gate	case
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 gate	nmod:poss
15	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 came	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bolt	past	they						tree rules
2	come	past	the dragon			their gate		close, first property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to gate=Initial_Location

Option 3

Only a bit of a laugh and quite safe really

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 bit	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 bit	det
3	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 safe	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 laugh	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 laugh	det
6	laugh	laugh	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bit	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 safe	cc
8	quite	quite	ADV	_	9 safe	advmod
9	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	really	really	ADV	_	9 safe	advmod

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

Option 4

A laugh, so they stayed put for a while

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 laugh	det
2	laugh	laugh	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 put	punct
4	so	so	ADV	_	7 put	advmod
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 put	nsubj
6	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 put	aux:pass
7	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 laugh	acl:relcl
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 while	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 while	det
10	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 put	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	past · passive		they			while		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal

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