Test 2 · ★ · The Magic City, The North Pole, part 13: George and Jane m…
Was the dragon proper terrifying, or what?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: dragon
This is test 2 · ★ 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 | 3 dragon | cop |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 dragon | det |
| 3 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 terrifying | csubj |
| 4 | proper | properly | ADV | _ | 5 terrifying | advmod |
| 5 | terrifying | terrifying | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 what | punct |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 what | cc |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 terrifying | conj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 terrifying | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the dragon | 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
Quite scary but nice
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Quite | quite | ADV | _ | 2 scary | advmod |
| 2 | scary | scary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 nice | cc |
| 4 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 scary | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Terrible but beautiful
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 beautiful | cc |
| 3 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Terrible | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Well, he was really big and scary but also quite lovely
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 6 big | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 big | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 big | cop |
| 5 | really | really | ADV | _ | 6 big | advmod |
| 6 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 scary | cc |
| 8 | scary | scary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 big | conj |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 lovely | cc |
| 10 | also | also | ADV | _ | 12 lovely | advmod |
| 11 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 12 lovely | advmod |
| 12 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 big | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | he | big property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | he not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | be | he not said here | tree rules |
Option 4
Yeah, it was terrifying but also really gorgeous to see
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 terrifying | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 terrifying | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 terrifying | cop |
| 5 | terrifying | terrifying | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 gorgeous | cc |
| 7 | also | also | ADV | _ | 9 gorgeous | advmod |
| 8 | really | really | ADV | _ | 9 gorgeous | advmod |
| 9 | gorgeous | gorgeous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 terrifying | conj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 see | mark |
| 11 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 gorgeous | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | it | terrifying property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | tree rules | |||||||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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