Test 6 · ★ · The Book of Dragons, The Ice Dragon, part 1: George and Ja…

Didn't George say the Prince was the reason no fireworks went up?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: George, Prince, fireworks · What happens: not say, be, go up · To what, where: reason · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ 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	4 say	aux
2	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 say	advmod
3	George	George	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 say	nsubj
4	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Prince	det
6	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 reason	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 reason	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 reason	det
9	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 say	acl:relcl
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 fireworks	det
11	fireworks	firework	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 went	nsubj
12	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 reason	acl:relcl
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 went	compound:prt
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not say speech: assert	past · do-support	George		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	the Prince	the reason	tree rules
3	go up	past	no fireworks	the reason not said here	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient reason=Extent

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 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, his first tooth was coming

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 coming	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 coming	punct
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 tooth	nmod:poss
4	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 tooth	amod
5	tooth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 coming	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 coming	aux
7	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past · progressive	his first tooth						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Yeah, cos of the cold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 cos	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	cos	co	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 cold	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cold	det
6	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cos	nmod

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, the Prince was cutting a tooth so nobody let off any rockets

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 cutting	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Prince	det
4	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 cutting	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 cutting	aux
6	cutting	cut	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 tooth	det
8	tooth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cutting	obj
9	so	so	ADV	_	11 let	advmod
10	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	11 let	nsubj
11	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 cutting	parataxis
12	off	off	ADP	_	11 let	compound:prt
13	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	14 rockets	det
14	rockets	rocket	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 let	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	past · progressive	the Prince	a tooth					vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Product
2	let off	infinitive	nobody	any rockets					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rocket=Theme

Option 4

Yeah, he was poorly that week

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 poorly	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 poorly	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 poorly	cop
5	poorly	poorly	ADV	_	root	root
6	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 week	det
7	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 poorly	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he				week	poorly property	tree rules

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