Test 10 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Old Grave-Stone, part 131: the old g…

Haha, what's that old house's dragon doing wrong?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: dragon · What happens: be, do · To what, where: dragon

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 920 «Andersen's Tales, The Old Grave-Stone, part 131: the old grave-stone is remembered, and a new tale begins with an old house and a leaking dragon gutter» 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	Haha	haha	INTJ	_	9 dragon	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Haha	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 dragon	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 dragon	cop
5	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 house	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 house	amod
7	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dragon	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 house	case
9	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 dragon	acl
11	wrong	wrong	ADV	_	10 doing	advmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 dragon	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		that old house's dragon					tree rules
2	do	gerund	that old house's dragon not said here					wrong property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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

Rain pours out of its mouth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pours	nsubj
2	pours	pour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	6 mouth	case
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 mouth	case
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 mouth	nmod:poss
6	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pours	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pour out	present	Rain	Rain's mouth					vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouth=Patient

Option 2

It spits fire

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 spits	nsubj
2	spits	spit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spits	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spit	present	It	fire					vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent fire=Theme

Option 3

Its water leaks from its tail

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 water	nmod:poss
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 leaks	nsubj
3	leaks	leak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 tail	case
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 tail	nmod:poss
6	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 leaks	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leak	present	Its water			water's tail			vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP.theme V PP.source»: agent=Theme from tail=Source

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Its rain leaks out of its body

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 rain	nmod:poss
2	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 leaks	nsubj
3	leaks	leak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	7 body	case
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 body	case
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 body	nmod:poss
7	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 leaks	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leak out	present	Its rain	rain's body					vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location body=Source
2	rain		Its = it						nom rain «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent

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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