Test 5 · ★ · The Book of Dragons, The Last of the Dragons: Johnnie and…
Did the kids actually gas the dragon with a sus giant story?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do · To what, where: kids
This is test 5 · ★ 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 | Did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 kids | det |
| 3 | kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Did | obj |
| 4 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 5 gas | advmod |
| 5 | gas | gas | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Did | obl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 dragon | det |
| 7 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Did | obj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 story | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 story | det |
| 10 | sus | sus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 story | compound |
| 11 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 story | amod |
| 12 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Did | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the kids | with a sus giant story; gas obl | 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
Nah, it was true
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 true | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 true | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 true | cop |
| 5 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | it | true property | tree rules |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, there was no giant, it was a proper fib
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 was | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 was | punct |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 was | expl |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 giant | cop |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 giant | det |
| 6 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 fib | punct |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 fib | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 fib | cop |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 fib | det |
| 11 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 fib | amod |
| 12 | fib | fib | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 giant | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | giant property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | it | a proper fib | tree rules |
Option 3
Yeah, the giant was real, but a lie
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 real | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 real | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 giant | det |
| 4 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 real | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 real | cop |
| 6 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 lie | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 lie | cc |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 lie | det |
| 10 | lie | lie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 real | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the giant | real property | tree rules |
Option 4
Nah, the giant was real, honest truth
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 6 real | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 giant | det |
| 4 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 real | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 real | cop |
| 6 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 truth | punct |
| 8 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 truth | amod |
| 9 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 real | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the giant | real property | tree rules |
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