Test 14 · ★ · The Book of Dragons, The Last of the Dragons: Nigel must w…
What did the Princess hold in her left hand, bro?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do · To what, where: Princess hold, left hand
This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 649 «The Book of Dragons, The Last of the Dragons: Nigel must work out the dragon's sleep, and the dragon turns to stone» 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 hold | det |
| 4 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 hold | compound |
| 5 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 did | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 hand | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 hand | nmod:poss |
| 8 | left | left | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 hand | amod |
| 9 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 did | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 bro | punct |
| 11 | bro | bro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hand | conj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the Princess hold | her left hand and bro | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Eventuality |
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
A silver spoon
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 spoon | det |
| 2 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 spoon | compound |
| 3 | spoon | spoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A brass telescope
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 telescope | det |
| 2 | brass | brass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 telescope | compound |
| 3 | telescope | telescope | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A compass
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 compass | det |
| 2 | compass | compass | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
The ship's chronometer
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 ship | det |
| 2 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 chronometer | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 ship | case |
| 4 | chronometer | chronometer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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