Exam question 2 · pg640 tales, The Magic Ring: the Prince is caught and chai…
To what duration did the death struggle of the Dragon extend before the monster ceased to move?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: duration, death struggle, monster, Dragon · What happens: do, extend, cease, move, struggle
This is exam question 2 of lesson 1682 «pg640 tales, The Magic Ring: the Prince is caught and chained in a cave» 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 2 what | case |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 did | obj |
| 3 | duration | duration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 struggle | det |
| 6 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 struggle | compound |
| 7 | struggle | struggle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 extend | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Dragon | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Dragon | det |
| 10 | Dragon | Dragon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 struggle | nmod |
| 11 | extend | extend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 did | parataxis |
| 12 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 15 ceased | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 monster | det |
| 14 | monster | monster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ceased | nsubj |
| 15 | ceased | cease | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 extend | ccomp |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 move | mark |
| 17 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 ceased | xcomp |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | duration | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | extend | present | the death struggle of the Dragon | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | cease | past | the monster | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | move | to-infinitive | the monster not said here | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | struggle | the Dragon | nom struggle «act intransitive»: of=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
Through an entire season of rain, wind and snow across the valley
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Through | through | ADP | _ | 4 season | case |
| 2 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 season | det |
| 3 | entire | entire | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 season | amod |
| 4 | season | season | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 rain | case |
| 6 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 season | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 wind | punct |
| 8 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 season | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 snow | cc |
| 10 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wind | conj |
| 11 | across | across | ADP | _ | 13 valley | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 valley | det |
| 13 | valley | valley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wind | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Five days and five nights
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 days | nummod |
| 2 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 nights | cc |
| 4 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 nights | nummod |
| 5 | nights | night | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 days | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Two days and two nights
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 days | nummod |
| 2 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 nights | cc |
| 4 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 nights | nummod |
| 5 | nights | night | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 days | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Three days and three nights
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 days | nummod |
| 2 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 nights | cc |
| 4 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 nights | nummod |
| 5 | nights | night | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 days | conj |
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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