Test 11 · ★ · Book of Dragons, The Deliverers of Their Country, part 10:…

Did the monument idea sound sound to Effie, or was she sceptical?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Effie · What happens: do, be · To what, where: sound sound

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 642 «Book of Dragons, The Deliverers of Their Country, part 10: the children escape the dragon and find the room of weather taps» 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	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sound	det
3	monument	monument	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 idea	compound
4	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sound	compound
5	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sound	compound
6	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Did	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 Effie	case
8	Effie	Effie	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 sound	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 sceptical	punct
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 sceptical	cc
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 sceptical	cop
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 sceptical	nsubj
13	sceptical	sceptical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Did	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the sound sound				to Effie	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Eventuality
2	is	past	Effie					sceptical 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

She wasn't sure, cos there were too many dead dragons to bury

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sure	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sure	cop
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 sure	advmod
4	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 were	punct
6	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	8 were	mark
7	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	8 were	expl
8	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 bury	advcl
9	too	too	ADV	_	10 many	advmod
10	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 dragons	amod
11	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 dragons	amod
12	dragons	dragon	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 were	nsubj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 bury	mark
14	bury	bury	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 sure	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	not is	past	She		sure property	tree rules
2	be	past	many dead dragons	there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	bury	to-infinitive	She not said here			vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

She wasn't sure at all, cos there were too many dead dragons to bury and the County Council would never pay for a monument

The tree, 25 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sure	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sure	cop
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 sure	advmod
4	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 sure	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 were	punct
8	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	10 were	mark
9	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	10 were	expl
10	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 bury	advcl
11	too	too	ADV	_	12 many	advmod
12	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 dragons	amod
13	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 dragons	amod
14	dragons	dragon	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 were	nsubj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 bury	mark
16	bury	bury	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 sure	parataxis
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 pay	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Council	det
19	County	County	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Council	compound
20	Council	Council	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 pay	nsubj
21	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 pay	aux
22	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	23 pay	advmod
23	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 bury	conj
24	for	for	ADP	_	26 monument	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 monument	det
26	monument	monument	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 pay	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	not is	past	She	all	sure property	tree rules
2	be	past	many dead dragons	there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	bury	to-infinitive				vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	not pay	would	the County Council		for a monument	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for monument=Theme

Option 3

She thought it was silly, cos nobody would pay for it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 silly	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 silly	cop
5	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 thought	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 pay	punct
7	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	10 pay	mark
8	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	10 pay	nsubj
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 pay	aux
10	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 silly	conj
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 it	case
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 pay	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	She		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	it	silly property	tree rules
3	pay	would	nobody	for it	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for it=Theme

Option 4

She liked it, cos the dragons were far too big to move

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 liked	nsubj
2	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 liked	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 big	punct
5	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	11 big	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dragons	det
7	dragons	dragon	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 big	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 big	cop
9	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 big	advmod
10	too	too	ADV	_	11 big	advmod
11	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 liked	parataxis
12	to	to	PART	_	13 move	mark
13	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 big	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	like	past	She	it		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme
2	is	past	the dragons		big, far property	tree rules
3	move	to-infinitive	the dragons not said here			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

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