Test 6 · ★ · The Book of Dragons, The Last of the Dragons: the griffin…
Where did Nigel find the big red sparkly stones, was it the beach?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Nigel, it · What happens: find, be · To what, where: big red sparkly stones, beach
This is test 6 · ★ 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 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 4 find | advmod |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 find | aux |
| 3 | Nigel | Nigel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 find | nsubj |
| 4 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 stones | det |
| 6 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 stones | amod |
| 7 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 stones | amod |
| 8 | sparkly | sparkly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 stones | amod |
| 9 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 find | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 beach | punct |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 beach | cop |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 beach | nsubj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 beach | det |
| 14 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 find | obl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 find | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past · do-support | Nigel | the big red sparkly stones | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | it | the beach | 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
Up the cliffs in a hidden cave by the palace garden
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Up | up | ADP | _ | 3 cliffs | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 cliffs | det |
| 3 | cliffs | cliff | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 cave | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 cave | det |
| 6 | hidden | hidden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 cave | amod |
| 7 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cliffs | nmod |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 garden | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 garden | det |
| 10 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 garden | compound |
| 11 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cave | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
In the sandy hollows at low tide, near the rock where the dragon lay
The tree, 13 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 hollows | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 hollows | det |
| 3 | sandy | sandy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hollows | amod |
| 4 | hollows | hollow | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 tide | case |
| 6 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 tide | amod |
| 7 | tide | tide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hollows | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 rock | punct |
| 9 | near | near | ADP | _ | 11 rock | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 rock | det |
| 11 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tide | appos |
| 12 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 11 rock | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 dragon | det |
| 14 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 where | nsubj |
| 15 | lay | lay | PUNCT | _ | 12 where | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
On the sandy beach near the rocks
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 beach | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 beach | det |
| 3 | sandy | sandy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 beach | amod |
| 4 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | near | near | ADP | _ | 7 rocks | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 rocks | det |
| 7 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 beach | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
In the sandy hollows at low tide
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 hollows | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 hollows | det |
| 3 | sandy | sandy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hollows | amod |
| 4 | hollows | hollow | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 tide | case |
| 6 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 tide | amod |
| 7 | tide | tide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hollows | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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