Exam question 3 · Fairy Tales (pg540), Drakestail: a duck calls on his frien…
Which of Drakestail's friends extinguishes the furnace intended for his destruction?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: furnace · What happens: extinguish, intend, destroy
This is exam question 3 of lesson 1551 «Fairy Tales (pg540), Drakestail: a duck calls on his friends to get back what the King owes him» 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 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 extinguishes | obj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 friends | case |
| 3 | Drakestail | Drakestail | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 friends | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 Drakestail | case |
| 5 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 extinguishes | obl |
| 6 | extinguishes | extinguish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 furnace | det |
| 8 | furnace | furnace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 intended | nsubj |
| 9 | intended | intend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 extinguishes | ccomp |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 destruction | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 destruction | nmod:poss |
| 12 | destruction | destruction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 intended | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 extinguishes | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | extinguish | present | of Drakestail's friends | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | intend | past | the furnace | for furnace's destruction | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | destroy | furnace | nom destruction «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
Comrade Wasp's-nest from the hollow tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Comrade | comrade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 nest | compound |
| 2 | Wasp's | Wasp's | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 nest | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Wasp's | punct |
| 4 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 tree | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 tree | det |
| 7 | hollow | hollow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 tree | amod |
| 8 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 nest | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Ladder
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ladder | ladder | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
River
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | River | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Lady-friend Ladder from the old wall
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lady | Lady | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Ladder | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Lady | punct |
| 3 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Ladder | compound |
| 4 | Ladder | ladder | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 wall | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 wall | det |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 wall | amod |
| 8 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Ladder | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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