Exam question 2 · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Castle of Kerglas, part 43: the st…

Upon what condition was the magician Rogear's lance rendered inoperative?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: lance · What happens: be, render · To what, where: magician

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1318 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Castle of Kerglas, part 43: the stones crush the sorcerer, and Peronnik hears of the magic basin» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Upon	upon	ADP	_	3 condition	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 condition	nsubj
3	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 magician	obl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 magician	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 magician	det
6	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	Rogear	Rogear	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 lance	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 Rogear	case
9	lance	lance	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 rendered	nsubj
10	rendered	render	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 magician	acl:relcl
11	inoperative	inoperative	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 rendered	xcomp
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 magician	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the magician				upon condition	tree rules
2	render	past	Rogear's lance	the magician not said here				inoperative property	vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent magician=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Upon his entry into the castle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Upon	upon	ADP	_	3 entry	case
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 entry	nmod:poss
3	entry	entry	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 castle	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 castle	det
6	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 entry	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	enter		his = he			the castle			nom entry «communication transitive»: poss=agent into=place

Option 2

Inside the wall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Inside	inside	ADP	_	3 wall	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wall	det
3	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Once the sun had set over hills

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Once	once	SCONJ	_	5 set	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sun	det
3	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 set	nsubj:pass
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 set	aux
5	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	over	over	ADP	_	7 hills	case
7	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 set	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	set	past · perfect · passive		the sun		hills			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme over hill=Destination

Option 4

When he rode into the forest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 rode	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 rode	nsubj
3	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 forest	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 forest	det
6	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rode	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ride	past	he			the forest			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent into forest=Trajectory

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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