Test 3 · ★ · pg23661, Edmund and the Dragon, the town on the hillside:…

Wait, how did Edmund make the drakling squeal?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Edmund · What happens: wait, make · To what, where: drakling squeal

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 660 «pg23661, Edmund and the Dragon, the town on the hillside: Edmund tricks the dragon and saves her drakling» 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	_	6 make	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 make	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 make	aux
5	Edmund	Edmund	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 make	nsubj
6	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wait	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 squeal	det
8	drakling	drakling	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 squeal	compound
9	squeal	squeal	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 make	obj
10	?	?	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	make	past · do-support	Edmund	the drakling squeal					vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent squeal=Product

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 · ✓ the right answer

He pinched its tail in the iron door

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 pinched	nsubj
2	pinched	pinch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 tail	nmod:poss
4	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pinched	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 door	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 door	det
7	iron	iron	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 door	amod
8	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pinched	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pinch	past	He	its tail		the iron door			vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Theme

Option 2

He pinched its tail really hard while the dragon was sliding down the shaft

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 pinched	nsubj
2	pinched	pinch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 tail	nmod:poss
4	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pinched	obj
5	really	really	ADV	_	6 hard	advmod
6	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 pinched	advmod
7	while	while	SCONJ	_	11 sliding	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 dragon	det
9	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sliding	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 sliding	aux
11	sliding	slide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 pinched	advcl
12	down	down	ADP	_	14 shaft	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 shaft	det
14	shaft	shaft	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sliding	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pinch	past	He	its tail				hard property	vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Theme
2	slide	past · progressive	the dragon			the shaft			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme down shaft=Trajectory

Option 3

He grabbed it and pinched its tail until it squealed out loud in the mountain

The tree, 15 words

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 grabbed	nsubj
2	grabbed	grab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 grabbed	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 pinched	cc
5	pinched	pinch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 grabbed	conj
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 tail	nmod:poss
7	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pinched	obj
8	until	until	SCONJ	_	10 squealed	mark
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 squealed	nsubj
10	squealed	squeal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 grabbed	advcl
11	out	out	ADV	_	10 squealed	advmod
12	loud	loud	ADV	_	10 squealed	advmod
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 mountain	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 mountain	det
15	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 squealed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	grab	past	He	it			vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	pinch	past	He not said here	its tail			vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Theme
3	squeal out	past	tail		the mountain	loud, out property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in mountain=Location

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

He squeezed its wing near the door

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 squeezed	nsubj
2	squeezed	squeeze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 wing	nmod:poss
4	wing	wing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 squeezed	obj
5	near	near	ADP	_	7 door	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 door	det
7	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 squeezed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	squeeze	past	He	its wing		the door			vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent wing=Theme near door=Trajectory

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