Test 9 · ★ · Book of Dragons, The Deliverers of Their Country, part 10:…

What was their mum up to back home, was she chilled out?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mum · What happens: be, back, chill out · To what, where: mum, she

This is test 9 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 mum	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 mum	cop
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 mum	nmod:poss
4	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 chilled	parataxis
5	up	up	ADP	_	7 back	case
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 back	case
7	back	back	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 mum	acl:relcl
8	home	home	ADV	_	7 back	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 mum	punct
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 chilled	aux:pass
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 chilled	nsubj
12	chilled	chill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
13	out	out	ADP	_	12 chilled	compound:prt
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 chilled	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past		their mum		tree rules
2	back	infinitive	their mum not said here		home property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	chill out	past · passive		she		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer

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

Sitting at home, having a cup of tea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 home	case
3	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sitting	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 having	punct
5	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Sitting	advcl
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 cup	det
7	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 having	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 tea	case
9	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cup	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	gerund				home			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at home=Location
2	have	gerund		a cup of tea					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cup=Patient

Option 2

Sitting at the window, waiting for them to come home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	4 window	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 window	det
4	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sitting	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 waiting	punct
6	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Sitting	conj
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 them	case
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 waiting	obl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 come	mark
10	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 waiting	advcl
11	home	home	ADV	_	10 come	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	where	other	roles by
1	sit	gerund	the window		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at window=Location
2	wait	gerund		for them = they	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	come	to-infinitive		home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Crying, cos she thought a dragon had eaten them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 thought	advcl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Crying	punct
3	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	5 thought	mark
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 thought	nsubj
5	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 dragon	det
7	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 eaten	nsubj:pass
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 eaten	aux
9	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 thought	ccomp
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 eaten	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	cry speech: express	gerund	she not said here		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	think speech: other	past	she		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	eat	past · perfect · passive		a dragon	tree rules

Option 4

Cooking dinner

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cooking	cooking	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dinner	compound
2	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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