Test 8 · ★ · Book of Dragons, The Last of the Dragons, part 9: Harry an…

What do they reckon St. George was on about with the weather?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: they, George · What happens: reckon, be · To what, where: weather

This is test 8 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 reckon	obj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 reckon	aux
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 reckon	nsubj
4	reckon	reckon	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	St.	St.	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 George	nmod:desc
6	George	George	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 weather	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 weather	cop
8	on	on	ADP	_	12 weather	case
9	about	about	ADV	_	12 weather	advmod
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 weather	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 weather	det
12	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reckon	ccomp
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 reckon	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	present · do-support	they						vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent what=Attribute
2	is	past	George St.			the weather		about 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

Dragons can't stand wet and cold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dragons	dragon	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stand	nsubj
2	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 stand	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 stand	advmod
4	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stand	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 cold	cc
7	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 wet	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not stand	can	Dragons					wet property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Dragons fear the sea and the wind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dragons	dragon	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 fear	nsubj
2	fear	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sea	det
4	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fear	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 wind	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wind	det
7	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sea	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fear	present	Dragons	the sea and the wind					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sea=Stimulus

Option 3

Dragons hate rain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dragons	dragon	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hate	nsubj
2	hate	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hate	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hate	present	Dragons	rain					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rain=Stimulus

Option 4

Dragons sleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dragons	dragon	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sleep	nsubj
2	sleep	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	present	Dragons						vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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