Test 8 · ★ · The Book of Dragons, The Last of the Dragons: Johnnie and…

Why did Johnnie not trust the mayor, like, at all?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Johnnie · What happens: not trust · To what, where: mayor

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 trust	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 trust	aux
3	Johnnie	Johnnie	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 trust	nsubj
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 trust	advmod
5	trust	trust	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 mayor	det
7	mayor	mayor	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 trust	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 like	punct
9	like	like	INTJ	_	5 trust	discourse
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 all	punct
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 all	case
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 trust	parataxis
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 trust	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not trust	past · do-support	Johnnie	the mayor					vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mayor=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

Coz the mayor took his dad's forge

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Coz	because	SCONJ	_	4 took	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 mayor	det
3	mayor	mayor	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	nsubj
4	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 dad	nmod:poss
6	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 forge	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 dad	case
8	forge	forge	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	the mayor	mayor's dad's forge					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent forge=Theme

Option 2

Coz he was dodgy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Coz	because	SCONJ	_	4 dodgy	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 dodgy	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dodgy	cop
4	dodgy	dodgy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					dodgy property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Coz the mayor was well dodgy with his dad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Coz	because	SCONJ	_	6 dodgy	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 mayor	det
3	mayor	mayor	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dodgy	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dodgy	cop
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 dodgy	advmod
6	dodgy	dodgy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 dad	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 dad	nmod:poss
9	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dodgy	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the mayor					with his dad; dodgy, well property	tree rules

Option 4

Coz the mayor was well rude to his mum

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Coz	because	SCONJ	_	6 rude	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 mayor	det
3	mayor	mayor	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rude	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 rude	cop
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 rude	advmod
6	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 mum	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 mum	nmod:poss
9	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rude	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the mayor					to his mum; rude, well property	tree rules

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