Test 12 · ★ · The Book of Dragons, The Last of the Dragons, part 27: Edm…

ngl the cockatrice is kinda rude, ye?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, cockatrice · What happens: ngl, be · To what, where: ye

This is test 12 · ★ 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	ngl	ngl	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cockatrice	det
3	cockatrice	cockatrice	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rude	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 rude	cop
5	kinda	kinda	ADV	_	6 rude	advmod
6	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 ngl	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 ngl	punct
8	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	1 ngl	obl:unmarked
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 ngl	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ngl	imperative	you not said here	ye					tree rules
2	is	present	the cockatrice					kinda, rude property	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

yeah, it told Edmund off and then went straight to sleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 told	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Edmund	Edmund	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 told	iobj
6	off	off	ADP	_	4 told	compound:prt
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 went	cc
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 went	advmod
9	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	conj
10	straight	straight	ADV	_	9 went	advmod
11	to	to	PART	_	12 sleep	mark
12	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 went	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell off speech: assert	past	it	Edmund			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent edmund=Recipient
2	go	past			then	straight property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	sleep	to-infinitive					vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

yeah, it shouted at him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 shouted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 shouted	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 shouted	nsubj
4	shouted	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 shouted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	past	it					at him = he	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

yeah, it scolded Edmund for asking questions all day long

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 scolded	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 scolded	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 scolded	nsubj
4	scolded	scold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Edmund	Edmund	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 scolded	obj
6	for	for	SCONJ	_	7 asking	mark
7	asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 scolded	advcl
8	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 asking	obj
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 day	det
10	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 asking	obl:unmarked
11	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 scolded	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scold	past	it	Edmund				long property	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent edmund=Theme
2	ask speech: ask	gerund		questions			day		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, it told Edmund off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 told	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Edmund	Edmund	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 told	iobj
6	off	off	ADP	_	4 told	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell off speech: assert	past	it		Edmund				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent edmund=Recipient

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