Test 9 · ★ · Book of Dragons, Prince Tiresome, part 2: the dragon eats…

Was the Treasury a dead strong building, or what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be

This is test 9 · ★ 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	10 what	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Treasury	det
3	Treasury	Treasury	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Was	nsubj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 building	det
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 building	amod
6	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 building	amod
7	building	building	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Was	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 what	punct
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 what	cc
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past							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 · ✓ the right answer

It was made of solid copper

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	3 made	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 made	aux:pass
3	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 copper	case
5	solid	solid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 copper	amod
6	copper	copper	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past · passive		It				of solid copper	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

Option 2

It was made of solid copper and had iron doors and walls thick enough to stop any beast

The tree, 18 words

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	3 made	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 made	aux:pass
3	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 copper	case
5	solid	solid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 copper	amod
6	copper	copper	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 had	cc
8	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 made	conj
9	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 doors	compound
10	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 had	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 walls	cc
12	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 doors	conj
13	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 doors	amod
14	enough	enough	ADV	_	13 thick	advmod
15	to	to	PART	_	16 stop	mark
16	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 thick	advcl
17	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	18 beast	det
18	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 stop	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	past · passive	It	of solid copper	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
2	have	past	iron doors and walls		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient
3	stop	to-infinitive	any beast		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality beast=Eventuality

Option 3

Made of wood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 wood	case
3	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	participle						of wood	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

Option 4

It was made of thick brick

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	3 made	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 made	aux:pass
3	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 brick	case
5	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 brick	amod
6	brick	brick	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past · passive		It				of thick brick	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

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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