Exam question 1 · Wonder-Book, The Dragon's Teeth, part 14: Europa rides a s…
Which quality does the bull display towards Europa throughout the passage?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: quality · What happens: do · To what, where: bull display
This is exam question 1 of lesson 2055 «Wonder-Book, The Dragon's Teeth, part 14: Europa rides a snow-white bull into the sea» 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 | DET | PronType=Int | 2 quality | det |
| 2 | quality | quality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 does | nsubj |
| 3 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 display | det |
| 5 | bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 display | compound |
| 6 | display | display | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 does | obj |
| 7 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 8 Europa | case |
| 8 | Europa | Europa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 display | nmod |
| 9 | throughout | throughout | ADP | _ | 11 passage | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 passage | det |
| 11 | passage | passage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 does | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 does | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | which quality | the bull display | throughout the passage | towards Europa | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent display=Eventuality |
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
a fierce protectiveness over her
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 protectiveness | det |
| 2 | fierce | fierce | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 protectiveness | amod |
| 3 | protectiveness | protectiveness | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | over | over | ADP | _ | 5 her | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 protectiveness | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
a playful, wild and mischievous nature
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 nature | det |
| 2 | playful | playful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 nature | amod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 wild | punct |
| 4 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 playful | conj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 mischievous | cc |
| 6 | mischievous | mischievous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 playful | conj |
| 7 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
affection
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | affection | affection | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
gentleness
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gentleness | gentleness | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
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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