Test 1 · ★ · Book of Dragons, Prince Tiresome, part 2: the dragon eats…

Oi, why was the Prince such a total wally, innit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Oi · What happens: be, innit

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 655 «Book of Dragons, Prince Tiresome, part 2: the dragon eats the hunt, then bursts out of a sealed bottle» 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	Oi	oi	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 innit	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 innit	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	12 innit	advmod
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 why	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Prince	det
6	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 innit	nsubj
7	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	10 wally	det:predet
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 wally	det
9	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 wally	amod
10	wally	wally	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Prince	appos
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Prince	punct
12	innit	innit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 innit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past						why property	tree rules
2	innit	infinitive	Oi						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

He nicked Elfin's reward, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 nicked	nsubj
2	nicked	nick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Elfin	Elfin	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 reward	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Elfin	case
5	reward	reward	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 nicked	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 mate	punct
7	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 reward	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nick	past	He	Elfin's reward and mate					vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reward=Patient
2	reward		Elfin						nom reward «event transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

He broke his promise to Elfin and then threatened to chop his head off, bruv

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 broke	nsubj
2	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 promise	nmod:poss
4	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 broke	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 Elfin	case
6	Elfin	Elfin	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 promise	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 threatened	cc
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 threatened	advmod
9	threatened	threaten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 broke	conj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 chop	mark
11	chop	chop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 threatened	xcomp
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 head	nmod:poss
13	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 chop	obj
14	off	off	ADP	_	11 chop	compound:prt
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 bruv	punct
16	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 broke	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	break	past	He	his promise		to Elfin result; bruv obl	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent promise=Patient to elfin=Result
2	threaten	past	He not said here		then		tree rules
3	chop off not said to happen	to-infinitive	He not said here	Elfin's head			vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient
4	promise		his = he			to Elfin	nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=agent to=obl

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He broke his promise to Elfin, bruv

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 broke	nsubj
2	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 promise	nmod:poss
4	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 broke	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 Elfin	case
6	Elfin	Elfin	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 promise	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 bruv	punct
8	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 promise	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	past	He	his promise and bruv				to Elfin result	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent promise=Patient to elfin=Result
2	promise		his = he					to Elfin	nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=agent to=obl

Option 4

He lied to the pig man, bruv

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lied	nsubj
2	lied	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	6 man	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 man	det
5	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 man	compound
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lied	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 bruv	punct
8	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 man	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	past	He					to the pig man and bruv	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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