Test 4 · ★ · The Book of Dragons, The Last of the Dragons, part 27: Edm…
fam, what even is a drakling, like a baby?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fam · What happens: be · To what, where: drakling
This is test 4 · ★ 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 | fam | fam | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 drakling | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 drakling | nsubj |
| 4 | even | even | ADV | _ | 7 drakling | advmod |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 drakling | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 drakling | det |
| 7 | drakling | drakling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 fam | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 baby | punct |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 11 baby | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 baby | det |
| 11 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 fam | conj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 fam | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | fam and a drakling and a baby | a drakling | 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
a young dragon that cannot fly yet
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 dragon | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 dragon | amod |
| 3 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 fly | nsubj |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 fly | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 fly | advmod |
| 7 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 dragon | acl:relcl |
| 8 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 7 fly | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not fly | can | a young dragon | yet | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
a young wyvern
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 wyvern | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 wyvern | amod |
| 3 | wyvern | wyvern | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
a little baby dragon who lives underground
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 dragon | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 dragon | amod |
| 3 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dragon | compound |
| 4 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 lives | nsubj |
| 6 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 dragon | acl:relcl |
| 7 | underground | underground | ADV | _ | 6 lives | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | a little baby dragon | underground property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
a dragon's baby
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 dragon | det |
| 2 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 baby | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 dragon | case |
| 4 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 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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