Test 11 · ★ · The Magic City, The North Pole, part 13: George and Jane m…
Was it, like, a proper dragon or a lamppost?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: it · What happens: be · To what, where: proper dragon
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 645 «The Magic City, The North Pole, part 13: George and Jane meet a frozen dragon and are tied up by sealskin dwarfs.» 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 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 dragon | cop |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 dragon | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 dragon | punct |
| 4 | like | like | INTJ | _ | 8 dragon | discourse |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 like | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 dragon | det |
| 7 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 dragon | amod |
| 8 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 lamppost | cc |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 lamppost | det |
| 11 | lamppost | lamppost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dragon | conj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 dragon | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | it | a proper dragon or a lamppost | 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
A wall of frozen snow
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 wall | det |
| 2 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 snow | case |
| 4 | frozen | freeze | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 snow | amod |
| 5 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wall | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | freeze | participle | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
Option 2
It was a lamppost made of ice, not a dragon at all
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 | 4 lamppost | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 lamppost | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 lamppost | det |
| 4 | lamppost | lamppost | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 lamppost | acl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 ice | case |
| 7 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 made | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 dragon | punct |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 dragon | advmod |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 dragon | det |
| 11 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lamppost | appos |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 all | case |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 dragon | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | It | a lamppost | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | participle | a lamppost not said here | of ice | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
A dragon made of ice
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 dragon | det |
| 2 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 dragon | acl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 ice | case |
| 5 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | participle | a dragon not said here | of ice | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
Option 4
A statue of a bird
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 statue | det |
| 2 | statue | statue | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 bird | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 bird | det |
| 5 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 statue | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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