Test 6 · ★ · Book of Dragons, Prince Tiresome, part 2: the dragon eats…

What did the secretaries do all night, like, while they were on the job?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: secretaries · What happens: do, be · To what, where: job

This is test 6 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 secretaries	det
4	secretaries	secretary	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 do	nsubj
5	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 night	det
7	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 do	obl:unmarked
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 job	punct
9	like	like	SCONJ	_	16 job	mark
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 like	punct
11	while	while	SCONJ	_	16 job	mark
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 job	nsubj
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 job	cop
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 job	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 job	det
16	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 do	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	roles by
1	do	past				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	do	present	the secretaries		night	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	secretaries = secretary	the job		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

They drank wine and played cards together

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 drank	nsubj
2	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 drank	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 played	cc
5	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 drank	conj
6	cards	card	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 played	obj
7	together	together	ADV	_	5 played	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink	past	They	wine					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wine=Patient
2	play	past	They not said here	cards				together property	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent card=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

They played hide-and-seek and marbles

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 played	nsubj
2	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	hide	hide	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 played	obj
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 seek	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 seek	cc
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 and	punct
7	seek	seek	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hide	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 marbles	cc
9	marbles	marble	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hide	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	past	They	hide and seek and marbles					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hide=Theme

Option 3

They gambled

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 gambled	nsubj
2	gambled	gamble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gamble	past	They						vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent

Option 4

They played cards and dice

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 played	nsubj
2	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	cards	card	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 played	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 dice	cc
5	dice	dice	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cards	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	past	They	cards and dice					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent card=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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