Test 4 · ★ · The Magic City, the North Pole dragon tale, part 14: white…
dragons can go uphill as easy as downhill, no joke, so that's wicked
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dragons, that · What happens: go, be
This is test 4 · ★ 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 | dragons | dragon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 go | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 go | aux |
| 3 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | uphill | uphill | ADV | _ | 6 easy | advmod |
| 5 | as | as | ADV | _ | 6 easy | advmod |
| 6 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 go | xcomp |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 downhill | case |
| 8 | downhill | downhill | ADV | _ | 6 easy | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 joke | punct |
| 10 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 joke | det |
| 11 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 go | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 wicked | punct |
| 13 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 16 wicked | mark |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 wicked | nsubj |
| 15 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 wicked | cop |
| 16 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 go | parataxis |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | can | dragons | easy property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present | that | wicked 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 · ← Mova's choice
no, not true
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 true | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 true | punct |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 true | advmod |
| 4 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
true, the narrator says so
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 says | advcl |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 true | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 narrator | det |
| 4 | narrator | narrator | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 says | nsubj |
| 5 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 says | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | the narrator | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
true, the dragon agreed
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 dragon | amod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 dragon | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 dragon | det |
| 4 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | agreed | agree | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 dragon | acl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | participle | the true dragon not said here | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
false, the narrator is wrong
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | false | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 narrator | amod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 false | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 narrator | det |
| 4 | narrator | narrator | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wrong | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 wrong | cop |
| 6 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the false narrator | wrong property | 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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