Test 12 · ★ · Book of Dragons, Prince Tiresome, part 2: the dragon eats…

Mate, why'd the bottle swell up in the Treasury?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: swell up · To what, where: bottle

This is test 12 · ★ 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 swell	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 swell	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 swell	advmod
4	'd	'd	PUNCT	_	6 bottle	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bottle	det
6	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 swell	obl
7	swell	swell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 swell	compound:prt
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 Treasury	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Treasury	det
11	Treasury	Treasury	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 swell	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 swell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swell up	present		the bottle				in the Treasury; Mate vocative	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in treasury=Attribute

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

The dragon inside grew bigger and hotter, until the bottle could no longer hold him at all

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dragon	det
2	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grew	nsubj
3	inside	inside	ADV	_	4 grew	advmod
4	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 grew	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 hotter	cc
7	hotter	hot	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 bigger	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 hold	punct
9	until	until	SCONJ	_	15 hold	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bottle	det
11	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 hold	nsubj
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 hold	aux
13	no	no	ADV	_	14 longer	advmod
14	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	15 hold	advmod
15	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 grew	advcl
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 hold	obj
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 all	case
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 hold	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	the dragon					big, inside property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hold	could	the bottle	dragon		all		long property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme at all=Location

Option 2

The gold inside was too heavy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 gold	det
2	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 heavy	nsubj
3	inside	inside	ADV	_	2 gold	advmod
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 heavy	cop
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 heavy	advmod
6	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3

It was too full

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 full	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 full	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 full	advmod
4	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The dragon inside grew bigger and hotter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dragon	det
2	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grew	nsubj
3	inside	inside	ADV	_	4 grew	advmod
4	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 grew	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 hotter	cc
7	hotter	hot	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 bigger	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	the dragon					big, inside property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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