Test 5 · ★ · The Book of Dragons, The Ice Dragon, part 1: George and Ja…
Did Jane reckon the lights were fairies planting trees?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Jane, lights, fairies · What happens: reckon, be, plant · To what, where: fairies, trees
This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 643 «The Book of Dragons, The Ice Dragon, part 1: George and Jane sneak out to see the Northern Lights and set off across the snowy fields toward the North Pole.» 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 | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 reckon | aux |
| 2 | Jane | Jane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 reckon | nsubj |
| 3 | reckon | reckon | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 lights | det |
| 5 | lights | light | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 fairies | nsubj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 fairies | cop |
| 7 | fairies | fairy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 reckon | obj |
| 8 | planting | plant | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 fairies | acl |
| 9 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 planting | obj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 reckon | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reckon | past · do-support | Jane | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | the lights | fairies | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | plant | gerund | fairies not said here | trees | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Patient |
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
Yeah, tiny glowing baby oaks
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 tiny | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 tiny | punct |
| 3 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | glowing | glow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 tiny | advcl |
| 5 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 oaks | compound |
| 6 | oaks | oak | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 glowing | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | glow | gerund | baby oaks | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent oak=Theme |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, little shiny baby poplars
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 poplars | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 poplars | punct |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 poplars | amod |
| 4 | shiny | shiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 poplars | amod |
| 5 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 poplars | compound |
| 6 | poplars | poplar | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Nah, just stars
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 stars | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 4 stars | advmod |
| 4 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Nah, it was just the moon
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 7 moon | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 moon | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 moon | cop |
| 5 | just | just | ADV | _ | 7 moon | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 moon | det |
| 7 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | it | the moon | tree rules |
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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