Test 11 · ★ · The Book of Dragons, The Last of the Dragons: the griffin…

So what's the stone dragon doing these days then, just lying about?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: stone dragon · What happens: be, do, lie · To what, where: stone dragon

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 650 «The Book of Dragons, The Last of the Dragons: the griffin dies and the whirlpools are explained» 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	_	6 dragon	advmod
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 dragon	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 dragon	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dragon	det
5	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dragon	compound
6	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 dragon	acl
8	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	9 days	det
9	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 doing	obj
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 doing	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 lying	punct
12	just	just	ADV	_	13 lying	advmod
13	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 doing	conj
14	about	about	ADV	_	13 lying	advmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 dragon	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the stone dragon			tree rules
2	do	gerund	the stone dragon not said here		then; day		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	lie	gerund	the stone dragon not said here			about property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Lying on the cliff where fishermen rest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 rest	csubj
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 cliff	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cliff	det
4	cliff	cliff	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Lying	obl
5	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	7 rest	advmod
6	fishermen	fisherman	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 rest	nsubj
7	rest	rest	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	gerund				the cliff			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on cliff=Location
2	rest	present	fishermen						vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Lying on the sand where little kids play

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 sand	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sand	det
4	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Lying	obl
5	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	8 play	advmod
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 kids	amod
7	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 play	nsubj
8	play	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 sand	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	gerund				the sand			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on sand=Location
2	play	present	little kids						vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Lying about

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	about	about	ADV	_	1 Lying	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	gerund						about property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Sleeping

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sleeping	sleeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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