Test 7 · ★ · Book of Dragons, Prince Tiresome, part 2: the dragon eats…
Mate, what happens when the dragon gets outta the bottle?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mate, dragon · What happens: happen, get · To what, where: outta
This is test 7 · ★ 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 | 4 happens | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 happens | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 happens | nsubj |
| 4 | happens | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 gets | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 dragon | det |
| 7 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gets | nsubj |
| 8 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 happens | advcl |
| 9 | outta | outta | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gets | obj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 bottle | det |
| 11 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gets | obj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 happens | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | present | Mate | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | get | present | the dragon | outta | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent outta=Beneficiary bottle=Theme |
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 flies off
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 flies | nsubj |
| 2 | flies | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | off | off | ADP | _ | 2 flies | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly off | present | He | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
He starts eating the gold and gems
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 starts | nsubj |
| 2 | starts | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | eating | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 starts | xcomp |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 gold | det |
| 5 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 eating | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 gems | cc |
| 7 | gems | gem | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 gold | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | present | He | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | eat | gerund | He not said here | the gold and gems | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Patient |
Option 3
He starts biting the big guards
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 starts | nsubj |
| 2 | starts | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | biting | bite | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 starts | xcomp |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 guards | det |
| 5 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 guards | amod |
| 6 | guards | guard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 biting | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | present | He | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | bite | gerund | He not said here | the big guards | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guard=Patient |
Option 4
He eats gold
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 eats | nsubj |
| 2 | eats | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 eats | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | present | He | gold | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Patient |
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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