Test 11 · ★ · The Book of Dragons, The Last of the Dragons, part 27: Edm…

lol did the cockatrice ever say sorry?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cockatrice · What happens: do, say · To what, where: cockatrice · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 659 «The Book of Dragons, The Last of the Dragons, part 27: Edmund fetches the drakling and tricks it into the fire-shaft» 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	lol	lol	INTJ	_	2 did	discourse
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cockatrice	det
4	cockatrice	cockatrice	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
5	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	6 say	advmod
6	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 cockatrice	acl
7	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 say	xcomp
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the cockatrice					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cockatrice=Eventuality
2	say speech: apologize	infinitive	the cockatrice not said here				ever	sorry property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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

nope, it kept on talking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 kept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kept	nsubj
4	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	SCONJ	_	6 talking	mark
6	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 kept	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	it						vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	talk	gerund							vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

nope, instead it stormed off into the back of the cave

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	5 stormed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
3	instead	instead	ADV	_	5 stormed	advmod
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 stormed	nsubj
5	stormed	storm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	off	off	ADP	_	5 stormed	compound:prt
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 back	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 back	det
9	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stormed	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 cave	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 cave	det
12	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 back	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	storm off	past	it			the back of the cave		instead property	vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

nope, it just went to sleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	5 went	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 went	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 went	advmod
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 sleep	mark
7	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 went	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	it						vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	sleep	to-infinitive							vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

nope, it yawned and told him to sit down and be quiet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 yawned	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 yawned	nsubj
4	yawned	yawn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 told	cc
6	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 yawned	conj
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 told	iobj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 sit	mark
9	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 told	xcomp
10	down	down	ADP	_	9 sit	compound:prt
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 quiet	cc
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 quiet	cop
13	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 sit	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	yawn	past	it			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	past		him = he		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	sit down not said to happen	to-infinitive				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	infinitive			quiet property	tree rules

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