Test 4 · ★ · Book of Dragons, The Last of the Dragons, part 9: Harry an…

How did the kids nick the dragon poison for Harry's face?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: kids · What happens: nick · To what, where: dragon poison

This is test 4 · ★ 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 nick	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 nick	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 kids	det
4	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 nick	nsubj
5	nick	nick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 poison	det
7	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 poison	compound
8	poison	poison	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 nick	obj
9	for	for	ADP	_	12 face	case
10	Harry	Harry	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 face	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 Harry	case
12	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 poison	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 nick	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nick	past · do-support	the kids	the dragon poison				for Harry's face	vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent poison=Theme for face=Beneficiary

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

Their mum was busy making more of it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mum	nmod:poss
2	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 busy	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 busy	cop
4	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 busy	advcl
6	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 making	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 more	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Their mum					busy property	tree rules
2	make	gerund	Their mum not said here	more of it					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset more=Product

Option 2

They sneaked it out of the cupboard quietly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sneaked	nsubj
2	sneaked	sneak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sneaked	obj
4	out	out	ADP	_	7 cupboard	case
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 cupboard	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cupboard	det
7	cupboard	cupboard	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sneaked	obl
8	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	2 sneaked	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sneak	past	They	it		the cupboard		quietly property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme out cupboard=Trajectory

Option 3

Mum left the bottle on the kitchen table

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 left	nsubj
2	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bottle	det
4	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 left	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	8 table	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 table	det
7	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 table	compound
8	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 left	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	past	Mum	the bottle		the kitchen table			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent bottle=Theme on table=Location

Option 4

The nurse gave it to them after they promised to be careful with the bottle

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 nurse	det
2	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gave	nsubj
3	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gave	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gave	obl
7	after	after	SCONJ	_	9 promised	mark
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 promised	nsubj
9	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gave	advcl
10	to	to	PART	_	12 careful	mark
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 careful	cop
12	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 promised	xcomp
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 bottle	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 bottle	det
15	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 careful	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	give	past	the nurse	it	them = they		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to they=Recipient
2	promise speech: promise	past	they				vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is not said to happen	to-infinitive	they not said here			with the bottle; careful property	tree rules

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