Test 8 · ★ · Book of Dragons, The Last of the Dragons, part 20: the dra…
How much did tourists have to fork out to peep at the dragon?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: much tourists · What happens: be, have, peep · To what, where: fork
This is test 8 · ★ 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 much | advmod |
| 2 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 tourists | amod |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 much | cop |
| 4 | tourists | tourist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 have | nsubj |
| 5 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 fork | mark |
| 7 | fork | fork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 have | obj |
| 8 | out | out | ADV | _ | 7 fork | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 peep | mark |
| 10 | peep | peep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 have | advcl |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 dragon | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 dragon | det |
| 13 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 peep | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | much property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | have | present | much tourists | fork | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fork=Patient | ||||
| 3 | peep | to-infinitive | much tourists not said here | at the dragon | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at dragon=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 · ← Mova's choice
twopence each, innit, or they didn't get in at all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | twopence | twopence | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 1 twopence | det |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 innit | punct |
| 4 | innit | innit | INTJ | _ | 1 twopence | discourse |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 get | punct |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 get | cc |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 get | nsubj |
| 8 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 get | aux |
| 9 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 get | advmod |
| 10 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 twopence | parataxis |
| 11 | in | in | ADV | _ | 10 get | advmod |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 all | case |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 get | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not get in | past · do-support | they | all | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 2
threepence, innit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | threepence | threepence | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 innit | punct |
| 3 | innit | innit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 threepence | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
twopence, innit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | twopence | twopence | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 innit | punct |
| 3 | innit | innit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 twopence | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
a shilling, innit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 shilling | det |
| 2 | shilling | shilling | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 innit | punct |
| 4 | innit | innit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 shilling | conj |
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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