Test 9 · ★ · Book of Dragons, The Blacksmith and the Dragon, part 2: Jo…

Ngl, why did John say babies are poison to dragons?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: John, babies · What happens: say, be · To what, where: poison · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 say	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ngl	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 say	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 say	aux
5	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 say	nsubj
6	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 poison	nsubj
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 poison	cop
9	poison	poison	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 say	ccomp
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 dragons	case
11	dragons	dragon	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 poison	nmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	John					Ngl vocative	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	babies	poison				to dragons	tree rules

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

to stop it eating the baby

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 stop	mark
2	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stop	obj
4	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 stop	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 baby	det
6	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eating	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	to-infinitive		it					tree rules
2	eat	gerund		the baby					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Patient

Option 2

to stop it from licking the baby with its hot tongue and burning it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 stop	mark
2	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stop	obj
4	from	from	SCONJ	_	5 licking	mark
5	licking	lick	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 stop	advcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 baby	det
7	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 licking	obj
8	with	with	ADP	_	11 tongue	case
9	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 tongue	nmod:poss
10	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 tongue	amod
11	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 licking	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 burning	cc
13	burning	burn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 licking	conj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 burning	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	stop	to-infinitive	it		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality it=Eventuality
2	lick	gerund	the baby	with baby's hot tongue	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent baby=Experiencer with tongue=Instrument
3	burn	gerund	baby		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

to stop it putting the baby in its mouth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 stop	mark
2	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stop	obj
4	putting	put	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 stop	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 baby	det
6	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 putting	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 mouth	case
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 mouth	nmod:poss
9	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 putting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	to-infinitive		it					tree rules
2	put	gerund		the baby		baby's mouth			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent baby=Theme in mouth=Destination

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

because a baby might make it sick and then it would blame him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	because	because	SCONJ	_	5 make	mark
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 baby	det
3	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 make	nsubj
4	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 make	aux
5	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 make	obj
7	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 make	xcomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 blame	cc
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 blame	advmod
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 blame	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 blame	aux
12	blame	blame	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 make	conj
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 blame	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	might	a baby	it				sick property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product
2	blame	would	baby	him = he			then		vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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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