Test 9 · ★ · The Book of Dragons, The Last of the Dragons: the griffin…

How did the palace even happen, like what was going on there?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: palace · What happens: happen, go

This is test 9 · ★ 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 happen	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 happen	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 palace	det
4	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 happen	nsubj
5	even	even	ADV	_	6 happen	advmod
6	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 going	punct
8	like	like	SCONJ	_	11 going	mark
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 going	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 going	aux
11	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 happen	advcl
12	on	on	ADP	_	13 there	case
13	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 going	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	past · do-support	the palace						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go	past · progressive							vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on there=Location

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 right answer

Ships came from far and wide and a palace was built

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	4 far	case
4	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 came	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 wide	cc
6	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 far	conj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 built	cc
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 palace	det
9	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 built	nsubj:pass
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 built	aux:pass
11	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 came	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	Ships						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from far=Initial_Location
2	build	past · passive		a palace					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

Option 2

A ship came

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 ship	det
2	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	a ship						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Traders came and the queen made a palace grow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Traders	trader	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 made	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 queen	det
5	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 made	nsubj
6	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 grow	advcl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 palace	det
8	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 made	obj
9	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 came	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	come	past	Traders		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	make	past	the queen	a palace	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent palace=Product
3	grow	present	Traders not said here		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

The King built it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 King	det
2	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 built	nsubj
3	built	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 built	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	past	the King	it					vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product

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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