Test 7 · ★ · The Book of Dragons, The Last of the Dragons, part 27: Edm…

the drakling wanted food, right? what'd it ask for?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: drakling · What happens: want, ask · To what, where: food

This is test 7 · ★ 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 drakling	det
2	drakling	drakling	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wanted	nsubj
3	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wanted	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 wanted	punct
6	right	right	INTJ	_	3 wanted	discourse
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 wanted	punct
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 ask	obj
9	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 ask	aux
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 ask	nsubj
11	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wanted	parataxis
12	for	for	ADP	_	11 ask	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 wanted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	the drakling	food					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot food=Theme
2	ask speech: ask	past	drakling						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient

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 cup of cold tea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cup	det
2	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 tea	case
4	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tea	amod
5	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cup	nmod

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

Option 2

a bowl of soup

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bowl	det
2	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 soup	case
4	soup	soup	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bowl	nmod

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

Option 3

the warm basin of fire the cockatrice kept burning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 basin	det
2	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 basin	amod
3	basin	basin	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 kept	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 fire	case
5	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 basin	nmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cockatrice	det
7	cockatrice	cockatrice	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 kept	nsubj
8	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	burning	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 kept	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	the warm basin of fire						tree rules
2	burn	gerund	the warm basin of fire not said here						vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

a basin of fire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 basin	det
2	basin	basin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 fire	case
4	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 basin	nmod

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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