Test 8 · ★ · pg23661, Edmund and the Dragon, the town on the hillside:…
What did the cockatrice do when the crew came?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: crew · What happens: do, come · To what, where: cockatrice
This is test 8 · ★ 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 cockatrice | det |
| 4 | cockatrice | cockatrice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 did | obj |
| 5 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 came | aux |
| 6 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 9 came | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 crew | det |
| 8 | crew | crew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | nsubj |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 cockatrice | acl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the cockatrice | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cockatrice=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | come | present · do-support | the crew | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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
Locked its door, bro, no way
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Locked | lock | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 door | nmod:poss |
| 3 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Locked | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 bro | punct |
| 5 | bro | bro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 door | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 way | punct |
| 7 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 8 way | det |
| 8 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 door | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lock | participle | its door and bro and no way | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Bolted its door, lol, no entry
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bolted | bolt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 door | amod |
| 2 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 door | nmod:poss |
| 3 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 door | punct |
| 5 | lol | lol | INTJ | _ | 3 door | discourse |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 entry | punct |
| 7 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 8 entry | det |
| 8 | entry | entry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 door | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bolt | participle | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
Hid, lol, no way
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hid | hid | INTJ | _ | 6 way | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hid | punct |
| 3 | lol | lol | INTJ | _ | 1 Hid | discourse |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hid | punct |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 way | det |
| 6 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
Slammed the gate, lol, nope
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Slammed | slam | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 gate | det |
| 3 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Slammed | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Slammed | punct |
| 5 | lol | lol | INTJ | _ | 1 Slammed | discourse |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Slammed | punct |
| 7 | nope | nope | INTJ | _ | 1 Slammed | discourse |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slam | participle | the gate | vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gate=Patient |
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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