Test 7 · ★ · pg23661, Sabrinetta and Elfin, part 24: the dragon is trap…

Why was Elfin's hands all black and that, and was it, like, cos of the dragon?

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

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 656 «pg23661, Sabrinetta and Elfin, part 24: the dragon is trapped in a bottle and Elfin's hands are burnt» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Rel	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Why	cop
3	Elfin	Elfin	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 hands	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Elfin	case
5	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Why	nsubj
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Why	advcl:relcl
7	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 all	amod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 that	cc
9	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 all	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 it	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 it	cc
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 it	cop
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Why	nsubj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 dragon	punct
15	like	like	ADP	_	20 dragon	case
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 dragon	punct
17	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	20 dragon	case
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 dragon	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 dragon	det
20	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 it	appos
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Elfin's hands					why property	tree rules
2	is a	past		it					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

he held the bottle with his hands

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 held	nsubj
2	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bottle	det
4	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 held	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 hands	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 hands	nmod:poss
7	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 held	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	past	he	the bottle				with his hands	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bottle=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

the dragon's fire burnt them off

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 fire	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 dragon	case
4	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 burnt	nsubj
5	burnt	burnt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 burnt	obj
7	off	off	ADP	_	5 burnt	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burnt off	past	the dragon's fire	them = they					tree rules
2	fire		the dragon						nom fire «event transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

the dragon breathed fire at him from the tower and burned his skin and bones

The tree, 15 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	3 breathed	nsubj
3	breathed	breathe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 breathed	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 breathed	obl
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 tower	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 tower	det
9	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 breathed	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 burned	cc
11	burned	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 breathed	conj
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 skin	nmod:poss
13	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 burned	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 bones	cc
15	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 skin	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	breathe	past	the dragon	fire		the tower		at him = he	vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Theme
2	burn	past	the dragon not said here	dragon's skin and bones					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent skin=Theme

Option 4

he had put his hands in fire

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 put	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 put	aux
3	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 hands	nmod:poss
5	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 put	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 fire	case
7	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 put	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	past · perfect	he	his hands		fire			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme in fire=Destination

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