Test 3 · ★ · The Book of Dragons, The Last of the Dragons: Johnnie and…

Wagwan, why did the dragon start blubbing in his dungeon?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Wagwan · What happens: start, blubb · To what, where: dungeon

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Wagwan	Wagwan	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 start	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Wagwan	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 start	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 start	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dragon	det
6	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 start	nsubj
7	start	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	blubbing	blubb	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 start	xcomp
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 dungeon	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 dungeon	nmod:poss
11	dungeon	dungeon	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 blubbing	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 start	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	past · do-support	Wagwan						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	blubb	gerund	Wagwan not said here			dragon's dungeon			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 · ← Mova's choice

Coz he'd been locked in a dark cellar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Coz	because	SCONJ	_	5 locked	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 locked	nsubj:pass
3	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 locked	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 locked	aux:pass
5	locked	lock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 cellar	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 cellar	det
8	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 cellar	amod
9	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 locked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lock	past · perfect · passive		he		a dark cellar			vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Coz he'd been done up like a kipper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Coz	because	SCONJ	_	5 done	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 done	nsubj
3	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 done	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 done	aux:pass
5	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 done	compound:prt
7	like	like	ADP	_	9 kipper	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 kipper	det
9	kipper	kipper	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 done	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do up	past · perfect · passive		he				like a kipper	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

Option 3

Coz he'd been done up like a kipper and then left chained in his dungeon all night

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Coz	because	SCONJ	_	5 done	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 done	nsubj
3	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 done	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 done	aux:pass
5	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 done	compound:prt
7	like	like	ADP	_	9 kipper	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 kipper	det
9	kipper	kipper	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 done	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 chained	cc
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 chained	advmod
12	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 chained	aux:pass
13	chained	chain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 done	advcl
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 dungeon	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 dungeon	nmod:poss
16	dungeon	dungeon	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 chained	obl
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 night	det
18	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 chained	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do up	past · perfect · passive		he				like a kipper	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
2	chain	past · passive				his dungeon	then; night		vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»

Option 4

Coz he'd been done up like a kipper by two kids and their stupid fib about a giant

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Coz	because	SCONJ	_	5 done	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 done	nsubj
3	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 done	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 done	aux:pass
5	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 done	compound:prt
7	like	like	ADP	_	9 kipper	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 kipper	det
9	kipper	kipper	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 done	obl
10	by	by	ADP	_	12 kids	case
11	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 kids	nummod
12	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 done	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 fib	cc
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 fib	nmod:poss
15	stupid	stupid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 fib	amod
16	fib	fib	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 kids	conj
17	about	about	SCONJ	_	19 giant	mark
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 giant	det
19	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 fib	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do up	past · perfect · passive	two kids and kids's stupid fib	he				like a kipper	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Eventuality
2	fib		kids = kid						nom fib «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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