Test 2 · ★ · Book of Dragons, The Blacksmith and the Dragon, part 2: Jo…

Bruv, why did the couple keep pretending they heard nothing?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: couple, they · What happens: do, keep, pretend, hear · To what, where: nothing

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 did	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bruv	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 did	advmod
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 couple	det
6	couple	couple	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 keep	nsubj
7	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	ccomp
8	pretending	pretend	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 keep	xcomp
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 heard	nsubj
10	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 pretending	ccomp
11	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	10 heard	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past			Bruv vocative	tree rules
2	keep	present	the couple			tree rules
3	pretend	gerund	the couple not said here			tree rules
4	hear	past	they	nothing		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus

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

cos they were too scared the dragon would hear them and come up the stairs

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	5 scared	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 scared	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 scared	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 scared	advmod
5	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 hear	advcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dragon	det
7	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hear	nsubj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 hear	aux
9	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 hear	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 come	cc
12	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 hear	conj
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 come	compound:prt
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 stairs	det
15	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 come	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	they		scared property	tree rules
2	hear	would	the dragon	them = they		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
3	come up	infinitive	the dragon not said here	the stairs		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

cos they both knew the dragon was purring and didn't want to say it out loud

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	4 knew	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 knew	nsubj
3	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	4 knew	advmod
4	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dragon	det
6	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 purring	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 purring	aux
8	purring	purr	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 knew	ccomp
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 want	cc
10	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 want	aux
11	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 want	advmod
12	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 knew	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 say	mark
14	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 want	xcomp
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 say	obj
16	out	out	ADP	_	14 say	compound:prt
17	loud	loud	ADV	_	14 say	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	know	past	they			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	purr	past · progressive	the dragon			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not want	past · do-support	they not said here			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	say out speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	they not said here	dragon	loud property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

cos they didn't want the purring to be real

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	5 want	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 want	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 want	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 want	advmod
5	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 purring	det
7	purring	purring	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 want	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	10 real	mark
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 real	cop
10	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 want	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not want	past · do-support	they	the purring					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot purring=Theme
2	is	to-infinitive	they not said here					real property	tree rules

Option 4

cos they wanted to keep quiet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	3 wanted	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wanted	nsubj
3	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 keep	mark
5	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wanted	xcomp
6	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 keep	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	they						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	keep not said to happen	to-infinitive	they not said here					quiet property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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