Test 3 · ★ · The Book of Dragons, The Last of the Dragons, part 27: Edm…

wait, Edmund skipped school tho, how often lol?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Edmund · What happens: wait, skip · To what, where: school tho

This is test 3 · ★ 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 skipped	punct
3	Edmund	Edmund	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 skipped	nsubj
4	skipped	skip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 wait	advcl
5	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tho	compound
6	tho	tho	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 skipped	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 often	punct
8	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	9 often	advmod
9	often	often	ADV	_	4 skipped	advmod
10	lol	lol	INTJ	_	1 wait	discourse
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	skip	past	Edmund	school tho				often property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tho=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

about every single day of the whole term

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	about	about	ADV	_	4 day	advmod
2	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 day	det
3	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 day	amod
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 term	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 term	det
7	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 term	amod
8	term	term	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 day	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

every week

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 week	det
2	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

he skipped school so often his master wrote letters home

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 skipped	nsubj
2	skipped	skip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 skipped	obj
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 often	advmod
5	often	often	ADV	_	8 wrote	advmod
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 master	nmod:poss
7	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wrote	nsubj
8	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 skipped	advcl
9	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 wrote	obj
10	home	home	ADV	_	8 wrote	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	skip	past	he	school					vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent school=Agent
2	write	past	his master	letters				home, often property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

very often

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	very	very	ADV	_	2 often	advmod
2	often	often	ADV	_	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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