Test 6 · ★ · Book of Dragons, The Deliverers of Their Country, part 10:…

Could the kids read the words on the taps, or what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: kids · What happens: read · To what, where: words, taps

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 kids	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 kids	det
3	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 read	nsubj
4	read	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 words	det
6	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 read	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 taps	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 taps	det
9	taps	tap	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 read	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 what	punct
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 what	cc
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 read	parataxis
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 read	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	past	the kids	the words		the taps			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic

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

Nah, they could only read the easy words on them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 read	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 read	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 read	aux
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 read	advmod
6	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 words	det
8	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 words	amod
9	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 read	obj
10	on	on	ADP	_	11 them	case
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 read	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	could	they	the easy words				on words = word	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic

Option 2

Yeah, they could read words of two or three syllables, so they managed all the labels on the taps

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 read	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 read	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 read	aux
5	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 read	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	11 syllables	case
8	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 syllables	nummod
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 three	cc
10	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 two	conj
11	syllables	syllable	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 words	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 managed	punct
13	so	so	ADV	_	15 managed	advmod
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 managed	nsubj
15	managed	manage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 read	conj
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 labels	det:predet
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 labels	det
18	labels	label	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 managed	obj
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 taps	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 taps	det
21	taps	tap	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 managed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	read	could	they	words of two syllables		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic
2	manage	past	words = word	all labels	the taps	vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.predicate»: agent=Agent label=Theme on tap=Eventuality
3	word			two syllables		nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, they could read words of two or three syllables

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 read	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 read	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 read	aux
5	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 read	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	11 syllables	case
8	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 syllables	nummod
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 three	cc
10	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 two	conj
11	syllables	syllable	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 words	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	could	they	words of two syllables					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic
2	word			two syllables					nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient

Option 4

Yeah, but only words of one syllable at a time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 words	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 words	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	5 words	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 words	advmod
5	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 syllable	case
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 syllable	nummod
8	syllable	syllable	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 words	nmod
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 time	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 time	det
11	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 syllable	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	word			one syllable at a time					nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient

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