Test 7 · ★ · The Magic City, the North Pole dragon tale, part 14: white…

so the dragon melted and nothing was left, mega sad or what

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dragon · What happens: melt, leave · To what, where: nothing

This is test 7 · ★ 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	so	so	ADV	_	4 melted	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dragon	det
3	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 melted	nsubj
4	melted	melt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 left	cc
6	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	8 left	nsubj:pass
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 left	aux:pass
8	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 melted	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sad	punct
10	mega	megapixel	ADV	_	11 sad	advmod
11	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 melted	parataxis
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 what	cc
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 sad	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	melt	past	the dragon						vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	leave	past · passive		nothing					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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

nothing was left at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 left	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 left	aux:pass
3	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 all	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 left	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	past · passive		nothing		all			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme at all=Location

Option 2

a little was left

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 little	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 left	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 left	aux:pass
4	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	past · passive		a little					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

there was not a bit left

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 was	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bit	det
5	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
6	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 bit	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not be	past	a bit			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	leave	participle		a bit not said here					vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

a bit of him stayed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bit	det
2	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stayed	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 him	case
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 bit	nmod
5	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past	a bit of him						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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