Test 8 · ★ · The Magic City, the North Pole dragon tale, part 14: white…

why did the fires make the dragon poorly, was it the heat or what

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fires, dragon · What happens: make, be · To what, where: dragon, heat

This is test 8 · ★ 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	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 make	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fires	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fires	det
4	fires	fire	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 make	nsubj
5	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 heat	advcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dragon	det
7	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 make	obj
8	poorly	poorly	ADV	_	5 make	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 make	punct
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 heat	cop
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 heat	nsubj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 heat	det
13	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 what	cc
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 heat	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	the fires	the dragon				poorly property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset dragon=Product
2	is a	past	dragon	the heat					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

the fires made him feel faint

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fires	det
2	fires	fire	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 made	nsubj
3	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 made	obj
5	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 made	xcomp
6	faint	faint	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 feel	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	the fires	him = he					tree rules
2	feel	infinitive	him = he not said here					faint property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

it was the fires, so he felt faint

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 fires	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fires	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fires	det
4	fires	fire	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 felt	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	8 felt	advmod
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 felt	nsubj
8	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fires	acl:relcl
9	faint	faint	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 felt	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	the fires					tree rules
2	feel	past	he	the fires not said here				faint property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Theme

Option 3

the fires

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fires	det
2	fires	fire	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

it was the heat, not the cold

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 heat	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 heat	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 heat	det
4	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 cold	punct
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 cold	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cold	det
8	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heat	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	the heat and the cold					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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