Test 7 · ★ · Book of Dragons, The Last of the Dragons, part 9: Harry an…

Which dragons were the right size to munch them, the wicked ones?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dragons · What happens: be, munch · To what, where: right size, dragons

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 dragons	det
2	dragons	dragon	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 size	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 size	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 size	det
5	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 size	amod
6	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 munch	mark
8	munch	munch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 size	acl
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 munch	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 ones	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 ones	det
12	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 ones	amod
13	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 size	parataxis
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 size	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	which dragons	the right size					tree rules
2	munch	to-infinitive		dragons = dragon					vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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 · ← Mova's choice

The little green ones only

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ones	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 ones	amod
3	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 ones	amod
4	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	only	only	ADV	_	4 ones	advmod

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

Option 2

All of them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 them	case
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 All	nmod

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

Option 3

Some were

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	root	root
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Some	cop

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

None of them were, luckily

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	None	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	4 were	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 them	case
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 None	nmod
4	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 luckily	punct
6	luckily	luckily	ADV	_	4 were	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	None					luckily property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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