Test 7 · ★ · Book of Dragons, The Blacksmith and the Dragon, part 2: Jo…

So what did the dragon want John to give as a pledge, like?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dragon, John · What happens: want, give · To what, where: John

This is test 7 · ★ 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	So	so	ADV	_	6 want	advmod
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 want	obj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 want	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dragon	det
5	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 want	nsubj
6	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 want	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 give	mark
9	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 want	xcomp
10	as	as	ADP	_	12 pledge	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 pledge	det
12	pledge	pledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 give	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 like	punct
14	like	like	ADP	_	9 give	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 want	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past · do-support	the dragon	John					tree rules
2	give not said to happen	to-infinitive	John not said here					as a pledge	vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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

his favourite anvil

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 anvil	nmod:poss
2	favourite	favourite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 anvil	amod
3	anvil	anvil	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

something he values most

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 values	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 values	nsubj
3	values	value	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 values	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	value	present	something	most					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer most=Stimulus

Option 3

his house

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 house	nmod:poss
2	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

his hammer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 hammer	nmod:poss
2	hammer	hammer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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