Test 12 · ★ · Danish Fairy and Folk Tales, Shepherd Paul, part 51: Niels…

Honestly, what was the dragon's deal down in that hole?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: deal, dragon · What happens: be, deal · To what, where: hole

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 711 «Danish Fairy and Folk Tales, Shepherd Paul, part 51: Niels is caught and wed, then Paul gathers three strong friends and finds a dragon's captive» 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	Honestly	honestly	ADV	_	3 what	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Honestly	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 what	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dragon	det
6	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 deal	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 dragon	case
8	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 what	nsubj
9	down	down	ADP	_	3 what	compound:prt
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 hole	case
11	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 hole	det
12	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 what	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the dragon's deal			that hole		honestly property	tree rules
2	deal		the dragon						nom deal «act transitive»: poss=agent

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

It was a small snake with two tails

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 snake	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 snake	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 snake	det
4	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 snake	amod
5	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 tails	case
7	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 tails	nummod
8	tails	tail	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 snake	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	a small snake				with two tails	tree rules

Option 2

Six heads, nothing else

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 heads	nummod
2	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 nothing	punct
4	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 heads	conj
5	else	else	ADV	_	4 nothing	advmod

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

Option 3

It had seven heads and stole gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 heads	nummod
4	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 stole	cc
6	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
7	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stole	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	It	seven heads					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient
2	steal	past		gold					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location gold=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It had six heads and had kidnapped a maiden

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 heads	nummod
4	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 kidnapped	cc
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 kidnapped	aux
7	kidnapped	kidnap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 had	conj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 maiden	det
9	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 kidnapped	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	It	six heads					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient
2	kidnap	past · perfect		a maiden					vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent maiden=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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