Test 11 · ★ · The Book of Dragons, The Last of the Dragons: Johnnie and…
Was the dragon well smart and made it to school, or what?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, make · To what, where: dragon
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 653 «The Book of Dragons, The Last of the Dragons: Johnnie and Tina trick the dragon back into chains, and he becomes the first cat» 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 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 dragon | cop |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 dragon | det |
| 3 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 smart | csubj |
| 4 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 smart | advmod |
| 5 | smart | smart | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 made | cc |
| 7 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 smart | conj |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 made | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 school | case |
| 10 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 made | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 what | punct |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 what | cc |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 smart | parataxis |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 smart | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the dragon | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | make | past | dragon | to school | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product |
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
Nah, he skipped school and didn't care
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 skipped | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 skipped | nsubj |
| 4 | skipped | skip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 skipped | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 care | cc |
| 7 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 care | aux |
| 8 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 care | advmod |
| 9 | care | care | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 skipped | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | skip | past | he | school | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent school=Agent | ||||
| 2 | not care | past · do-support | he not said here | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Nah, he never went to school and knew no better
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 went | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 went | nsubj |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 went | advmod |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 school | case |
| 7 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 knew | cc |
| 9 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | conj |
| 10 | no | no | ADV | _ | 9 knew | advmod |
| 11 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 knew | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not go | past | he | school | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to school=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | not know | past | he not said here | good property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Yeah, he went to school every day
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 went | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 school | case |
| 6 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 7 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 day | det |
| 8 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | he | school | day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to school=Initial_Location |
Option 4
Nah, he never went
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 went | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 went | nsubj |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 went | advmod |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not go | past | he | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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