Test 13 · ★ · The Magic City, the North Pole dragon tale, part 14: white…
was the dragon actually friendly or was he dodgy
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dragon · What happens: be
This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 646 «The Magic City, the North Pole dragon tale, part 14: white feathers, a moth army, and a melting dragon» 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 | 5 friendly | cop |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 dragon | det |
| 3 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 friendly | nsubj |
| 4 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 5 friendly | advmod |
| 5 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 dodgy | cc |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 dodgy | cop |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 dodgy | nsubj |
| 9 | dodgy | dodgy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 friendly | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the dragon | actually, friendly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | dragon | dodgy property | 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 · ✓ the right answer
he was friendly and gave them a lift
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 friendly | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 friendly | cop |
| 3 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 gave | cc |
| 5 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 friendly | conj |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 gave | iobj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 lift | det |
| 8 | lift | lift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gave | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | he | friendly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | give | past | he not said here | a lift | them = they | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient lift=Theme |
Option 2
he was friendly and gave them a lift all the way to Forest Hill and the Palace
The tree, 17 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 friendly | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 friendly | cop |
| 3 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 gave | cc |
| 5 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 friendly | conj |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 gave | iobj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 lift | det |
| 8 | lift | lift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gave | obj |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 way | det:predet |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 way | det |
| 11 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gave | parataxis |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 Hill | case |
| 13 | Forest | Forest | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Hill | compound |
| 14 | Hill | Hill | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 way | nmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 Palace | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Palace | det |
| 17 | Palace | Palace | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Hill | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | he | friendly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | give | past | he not said here | a lift | them = they | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient lift=Theme |
Option 3
he was friendly and gave them food
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 friendly | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 friendly | cop |
| 3 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 gave | cc |
| 5 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 friendly | conj |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 gave | iobj |
| 7 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gave | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | he | friendly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | give | past | he not said here | food | them = they | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient food=Theme |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
he was friendly at first, but then he tried to eat the children on the slide
The tree, 16 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 friendly | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 friendly | cop |
| 3 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 first | case |
| 5 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 friendly | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 tried | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 tried | cc |
| 8 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 tried | advmod |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 tried | nsubj |
| 10 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 friendly | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 eat | mark |
| 12 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 tried | xcomp |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 children | det |
| 14 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 eat | obj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 slide | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 slide | det |
| 17 | slide | slide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 eat | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | he | friendly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | try | past | he | then | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | eat not said to happen | to-infinitive | he not said here | the children | the slide | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient |
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