Test 6 · ★ · The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon, part 22: a dragon s…
Those hippos sound well mental, what noise do they make?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: hippos, noise · What happens: sound, make
This is test 6 · ★ 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 | Those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 hippos | det |
| 2 | hippos | hippo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 sound | nsubj |
| 3 | sound | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 mental | advmod |
| 5 | mental | mental | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sound | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 make | punct |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 make | obj |
| 8 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 make | nsubj |
| 9 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 make | aux |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 make | nsubj |
| 11 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 sound | conj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 sound | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sound | present | that hippos | mental property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | make | present · do-support | noise | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset what=Product |
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
They snort like pigs
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 snort | nsubj |
| 2 | snort | snort | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | like | like | ADP | _ | 4 pigs | case |
| 4 | pigs | pig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 snort | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | snort | present | They | like pigs | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
They bark like hounds, not like pigs
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 bark | nsubj |
| 2 | bark | bark | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | like | like | ADP | _ | 4 hounds | case |
| 4 | hounds | hound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 bark | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 pigs | punct |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 pigs | advmod |
| 7 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 pigs | case |
| 8 | pigs | pig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 hounds | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bark | present | They | like hounds and pigs | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
They grunt like pigs, not like hounds
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 grunt | nsubj |
| 2 | grunt | grunt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | like | like | ADP | _ | 4 pigs | case |
| 4 | pigs | pig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 grunt | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 hounds | punct |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 hounds | advmod |
| 7 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 hounds | case |
| 8 | hounds | hound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 grunt | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grunt | present | They | like pigs; like hounds | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
They howl like wolves, not like pigs
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 howl | nsubj |
| 2 | howl | howl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | like | like | ADP | _ | 4 wolves | case |
| 4 | wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 howl | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 pigs | punct |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 pigs | advmod |
| 7 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 pigs | case |
| 8 | pigs | pig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 wolves | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | howl | present | They | like wolves and pigs | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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