Test 13 · ★ · The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon, part 22: a dragon s…
Where did the dragon go after it trampled the ferns, mate?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dragon · What happens: go, trample · To what, where: ferns
This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 654 «The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon, part 22: a dragon scares the town and the Prince sets out to hunt it» 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 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 5 go | advmod |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 go | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 dragon | det |
| 4 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 go | nsubj |
| 5 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 8 trampled | mark |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 trampled | nsubj |
| 8 | trampled | trample | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 go | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 ferns | det |
| 10 | ferns | fern | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 trampled | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 mate | punct |
| 12 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ferns | conj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 go | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past · do-support | the dragon | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | trample | past | dragon | the ferns and mate | 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
Back into the covert of the wood and under the roots of the great oak
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Back | back | ADV | _ | 4 covert | advmod |
| 2 | into | into | ADP | _ | 4 covert | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 covert | det |
| 4 | covert | covert | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 wood | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 wood | det |
| 7 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 covert | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 roots | cc |
| 9 | under | under | ADP | _ | 11 roots | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 roots | det |
| 11 | roots | root | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 wood | conj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 oak | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 oak | det |
| 14 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 oak | amod |
| 15 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 roots | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Back to the old barn
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Back | back | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 barn | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 barn | det |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 barn | amod |
| 5 | barn | barn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Back | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Over the far hill
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Over | over | ADP | _ | 4 hill | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 hill | det |
| 3 | far | far | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hill | amod |
| 4 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Back into the covert of the wood
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Back | back | ADV | _ | 4 covert | advmod |
| 2 | into | into | ADP | _ | 4 covert | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 covert | det |
| 4 | covert | covert | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 wood | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 wood | det |
| 7 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 covert | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.
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