Test 4 · ★ · Book of Dragons, Prince Tiresome, part 2: the dragon eats…
Was the Prince dead scared or dead brave in that tree?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Prince · What happens: be · To what, where: tree
This is test 4 · ★ 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 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 scared | cop |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 scared | det |
| 3 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 scared | nsubj |
| 4 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 scared | amod |
| 5 | scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 dead | cc |
| 7 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 scared | conj |
| 8 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 scared | conj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 tree | case |
| 10 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 tree | det |
| 11 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 brave | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 scared | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Prince | scared property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | Prince not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | be | Prince not said here | that tree | 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
He hid then had a nap
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 hid | nsubj |
| 2 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 had | advmod |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 hid | ccomp |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 nap | det |
| 6 | nap | nap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hid | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | past | He | a nap | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | past | He not said here | then | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
He was scared and hid in a tree and then dozed off, mate, proper scared lad
The tree, 16 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 | 3 scared | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 scared | cop |
| 3 | scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 hid | cc |
| 5 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 scared | conj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 tree | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 tree | det |
| 8 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hid | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 dozed | cc |
| 10 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 dozed | advmod |
| 11 | dozed | doze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 scared | conj |
| 12 | off | off | ADP | _ | 11 dozed | compound:prt |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 mate | punct |
| 14 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 dozed | vocative |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 lad | punct |
| 16 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 lad | amod |
| 17 | scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 lad | amod |
| 18 | lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 scared | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | He | scared property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hide | past | He not said here | a tree | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in tree=Location | ||||
| 3 | doze off | past | He not said here | then | mate vocative | vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 3
He ran and hid in a tree
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 ran | nsubj |
| 2 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 hid | cc |
| 4 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 ran | conj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 tree | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 tree | det |
| 7 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hid | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | He | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | hide | past | He not said here | a tree | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in tree=Location |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
He hid and fell asleep, 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 hid | nsubj |
| 2 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 fell | cc |
| 4 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 hid | conj |
| 5 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 fell | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 hid | punct |
| 7 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hid | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | past | He | mate | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | fall | past | He not said here | asleep property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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