Test 5 · ★ · The Book of Dragons, The Last of the Dragons: the griffin…

Proper mental, but how did the King's blood make whirlpools anyway?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: mental, King · What happens: do, whirlpool, make · To what, where: blood make

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Proper	properly	ADV	_	2 mental	advmod
2	mental	mental	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 whirlpools	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 did	punct
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 did	cc
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 did	advmod
6	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 mental	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 King	det
8	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 make	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 King	case
10	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 make	compound
11	make	make	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 did	obj
12	whirlpools	whirlpool	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	12 whirlpools	advmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 whirlpools	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past	mental not said here	the King's blood make		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent make=Eventuality
2	whirlpool	present	mental		anyway property	tree rules
3	make		the King			nom make «cognition transitive»: poss=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

The sea was angry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sea	det
2	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 angry	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 angry	cop
4	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the sea					angry property	tree rules

Option 2

The sea wanted to throw it out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sea	det
2	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wanted	nsubj
3	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 throw	mark
5	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wanted	xcomp
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 throw	obj
7	out	out	ADP	_	5 throw	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	the sea						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	throw out not said to happen	to-infinitive	the sea not said here	sea					vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The sea kept trying to get rid of it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sea	det
2	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kept	nsubj
3	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	trying	try	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 kept	xcomp
5	to	to	PART	_	6 get	mark
6	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 trying	xcomp
7	rid	rid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 get	xcomp
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 rid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	keep	past	the sea		tree rules
2	try	gerund	the sea not said here		vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	get not said to happen	to-infinitive	the sea not said here	rid property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

It was the sea's own fault

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	7 fault	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 fault	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sea	det
4	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fault	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 sea	case
6	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 fault	amod
7	fault	fault	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	the sea's own fault					tree rules

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