Test 2 · ★ · Book of Dragons, The Last of the Dragons, part 20: the dra…
Wait, why did the mayor not help John at all?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, mayor · What happens: wait, not help · To what, where: John, all
This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 652 «Book of Dragons, The Last of the Dragons, part 20: the dragon minds the baby, then fights a giant» 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 | _ | 8 help | punct |
| 3 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 help | advmod |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 help | aux |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 mayor | det |
| 6 | mayor | mayor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 help | nsubj |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 help | advmod |
| 8 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Wait | conj |
| 9 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 help | obj |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 all | case |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 help | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | 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 | not help | past · do-support | the mayor | John | all | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent john=Beneficiary |
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 busy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cos | cos | SCONJ | _ | 4 busy | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 busy | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 busy | cop |
| 4 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | they | busy property | tree rules |
Option 2
cos the mayor was out at sea
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cos | cos | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 mayor | det |
| 3 | mayor | mayor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 out | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 out | cop |
| 5 | out | out | ADV | _ | 1 cos | ccomp |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 sea | case |
| 7 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 cos | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cos | imperative | you not said here | sea | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the mayor | out property | tree rules |
Option 3
cos they had a party that night
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cos | cos | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | nsubj |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 party | det |
| 5 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 6 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 night | det |
| 7 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | cos | a party | night | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent party=Patient |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
cos they had plans that night
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cos | cos | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | nsubj |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | plans | plan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 had | obj |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 night | det |
| 6 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 plans | nmod:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | cos | plans that night | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plan=Patient |
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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