Test 7 · ★ · Book of Dragons, The Deliverers of Their Country, part 10:…

Wha's the deal with the sunshine tap, was it on or off?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Wha · What happens: be · To what, where: deal

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Wha	Wha	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 deal	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 deal	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 deal	det
4	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 tap	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 tap	det
7	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tap	compound
8	tap	tap	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 deal	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 deal	punct
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 on	cop
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 on	nsubj
12	on	on	ADP	_	4 deal	compound:prt
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 off	cc
14	off	off	ADV	_	12 on	conj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 deal	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Wha	the deal				with the sunshine tap	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

It was on the whole time, but stuck halfway

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 time	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 time	cop
3	on	on	ADP	_	6 time	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 time	det
5	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 time	amod
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 stuck	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 stuck	cc
9	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 time	parataxis
10	halfway	halfway	ADV	_	9 stuck	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	It				on the whole time		tree rules

Option 2

It was off, but it kept on dripping slowly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 was	nsubj
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 was	compound:prt
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 kept	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 kept	cc
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 kept	nsubj
7	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 was	parataxis
8	on	on	SCONJ	_	9 dripping	mark
9	dripping	drip	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 kept	advcl
10	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	9 dripping	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	be off	past	It		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	keep	past	it		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	drip	gerund		slowly property	vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It was turned full on, but it was out of order

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 turned	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 turned	aux:pass
3	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 turned	xcomp
5	on	on	ADV	_	3 turned	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 order	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 order	cc
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 order	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 order	cop
10	out	out	ADP	_	12 order	case
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 order	case
12	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past · passive		It				full property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme
2	is	past	it			order			tree rules

Option 4

It was off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 was	nsubj
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 was	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be off	past	It						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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