Test 9 · ★ · The Book of Dragons, The Last of the Dragons, part 27: Edm…

so why was the dragon mad at Edmund?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be

This is test 9 · ★ 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	so	so	ADV	_	2 why	advmod
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 why	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dragon	det
5	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 why	appos
6	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 dragon	amod
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 Edmund	case
8	Edmund	Edmund	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 mad	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 why	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past						why 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 · ← Mova's choice

he woke her up

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 woke	nsubj
2	woke	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 woke	obj
4	up	up	ADP	_	2 woke	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wake up	past	he	her = she					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent she=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

he laughed at her

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 laughed	nsubj
2	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 her	case
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 laughed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	he					at her = she	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

he was rude

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	3 rude	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 rude	cop
3	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					rude property	tree rules

Option 4

he sang a song

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 sang	nsubj
2	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 song	det
4	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sang	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past	he	a song					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme

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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