Test 10 · ★ · Book of Dragons, The Blacksmith and the Dragon, part 2: Jo…
Wait, what made the baby stop screaming?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, baby stop · What happens: wait, make, scream · To what, where: baby stop
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 651 «Book of Dragons, The Blacksmith and the Dragon, part 2: John finds a dragon in the dungeon and chains it up with his baby as a pledge» 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 | Wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 made | nsubj |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Wait | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 stop | det |
| 6 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stop | compound |
| 7 | stop | stop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | obj |
| 8 | screaming | scream | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 stop | acl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wait | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | imperative | you not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | make | past | the baby stop | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material stop=Product | |||||
| 3 | scream speech: express | gerund | the baby stop not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
the dragon purring at it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 dragon | det |
| 2 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | purring | purr | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 dragon | acl |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 it | case |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 purring | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | purr | gerund | the dragon not said here | at dragon | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at it=Location |
Option 2
the dragon's soft purr and its warm breath on the cold floor
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 dragon | det |
| 2 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 purr | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 dragon | case |
| 4 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 purr | amod |
| 5 | purr | purr | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 breath | cc |
| 7 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 breath | nmod:poss |
| 8 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 breath | amod |
| 9 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 purr | conj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 floor | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 floor | det |
| 12 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 floor | amod |
| 13 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 breath | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | purr | the dragon | nom purr «event intransitive»: poss=agent |
Option 3
the dragon hugging it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 dragon | det |
| 2 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | hugging | hug | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 dragon | acl |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 hugging | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hug | gerund | the dragon not said here | dragon | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Co-Agent |
Option 4
the dragon rocking it gently in its wings and humming softly
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 dragon | det |
| 2 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | rocking | rock | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 dragon | acl |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 rocking | obj |
| 5 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 3 rocking | advmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 wings | case |
| 7 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 wings | nmod:poss |
| 8 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 rocking | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 humming | cc |
| 10 | humming | hum | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 rocking | conj |
| 11 | softly | softly | ADV | _ | 10 humming | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rock | gerund | the dragon not said here | dragon | dragon's wings | gently property | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme | ||
| 2 | hum | gerund | the dragon not said here | softly property | vn bulge-47.5.3 «NP V»: agent=Location |
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