Test 4 · ★ · Book of Dragons, The Blacksmith and the Dragon, part 2: Jo…

Did the dragon really say it would eat him last?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: dragon · What happens: do, say, eat, last · To what, where: dragon, him · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dragon	det
3	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Did	obj
4	really	really	ADV	_	5 say	advmod
5	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Did	advcl
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 eat	nsubj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 eat	aux
8	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 say	ccomp
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 eat	obj
10	last	last	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 eat	xcomp
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past		the dragon	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dragon=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	present			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	eat	would	dragon	him = he	tree rules
4	last	infinitive	dragon not said here		vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme

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

yeah, it said it'd eat him now

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 eat	nsubj
6	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 eat	aux
7	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 eat	obj
9	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 eat	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	it						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	eat	would	it	him = he			now		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 2

nah, it said it'd eat him after the baby and the chickens

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 eat	nsubj
6	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 eat	aux
7	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 eat	obj
9	after	after	ADP	_	11 baby	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 baby	det
11	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 eat	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 chickens	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 chickens	det
14	chickens	chicken	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 baby	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	it						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	eat	would	it	him = he			after the baby and the chickens		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

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

yeah, it said it'd eat him last

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 eat	nsubj
6	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 eat	aux
7	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 eat	obj
9	last	last	ADV	_	7 eat	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	it						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	eat	would	it	him = he				last property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 4

yeah, it said it'd eat him last, then the baby, then the cat

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 eat	nsubj
6	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 eat	aux
7	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 eat	obj
9	last	last	ADV	_	7 eat	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 baby	punct
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 baby	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 baby	det
13	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	advcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 cat	punct
15	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 cat	advmod
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 cat	det
17	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 baby	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	it						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	eat	would	it	him = he				last property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

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