Test 6 · ★ · The Book of Dragons, The Last of the Dragons: Johnnie and…

Wasn't the feast well peak, with stacks of sweets and buns?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: not be · To what, where: feast

This is test 6 · ★ 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	4 feast	cop
2	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 feast	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 feast	det
4	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 peak	compound
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 peak	advmod
6	peak	peak	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 stacks	punct
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 stacks	case
9	stacks	stack	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 peak	appos
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 sweets	case
11	sweets	sweet	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 stacks	nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 buns	cc
13	buns	bun	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 sweets	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 peak	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a	past		the feast					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

Yeah, it was bare sweet stuff from the very start to the very end, with buns and pies galore

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 stuff	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 stuff	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 stuff	cop
5	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 stuff	amod
6	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 stuff	amod
7	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	from	from	ADP	_	11 start	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 start	det
10	very	very	ADV	_	11 start	advmod
11	start	start	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stuff	nmod
12	to	to	ADP	_	15 end	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 end	det
14	very	very	ADV	_	15 end	advmod
15	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 start	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 buns	punct
17	with	with	ADP	_	18 buns	case
18	buns	bun	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 stuff	conj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 pies	cc
20	pies	pie	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 buns	conj
21	galore	galore	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 buns	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	bare sweet stuff and buns and pies and galore		the start to the end			tree rules

Option 2

Yeah, it was bare sweet stuff from start to finish, and the mayor even ate the sugar bowl

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 stuff	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 stuff	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 stuff	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 stuff	cop
5	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 stuff	amod
6	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 stuff	amod
7	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	from	from	ADP	_	9 start	case
9	start	start	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stuff	nmod
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 finish	case
11	finish	finish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 start	acl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 ate	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 ate	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 mayor	det
15	mayor	mayor	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 ate	nsubj
16	even	even	ADV	_	17 ate	advmod
17	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 stuff	acl:relcl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 bowl	det
19	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 bowl	compound
20	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 ate	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	past	it	bare sweet stuff	start	tree rules
2	finish	infinitive	start not said here			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	eat	past	the mayor	the sugar bowl		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bowl=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, it was bare sweet stuff from start to finish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 stuff	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 stuff	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 stuff	cop
5	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 stuff	amod
6	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 stuff	amod
7	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	from	from	ADP	_	9 start	case
9	start	start	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stuff	nmod
10	to	to	PART	_	11 finish	mark
11	finish	finish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 stuff	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	bare sweet stuff		start			tree rules
2	finish	to-infinitive							vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 4

Nah, it was bare savoury food, no sweets

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 food	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 food	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 food	cop
5	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 food	amod
6	savoury	savoury	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 food	amod
7	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sweets	punct
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 sweets	det
10	sweets	sweet	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 food	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	bare savoury food and no sweets					tree rules

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