Exam question 1 · A Wonder-Book, The Dragon's Teeth, part 18: Cadmus follows…

To what animal did the oracle assign the role of guide to Cadmus?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: oracle · What happens: assign · To what, where: role, Cadmus

This is exam question 1 of lesson 2059 «A Wonder-Book, The Dragon's Teeth, part 18: Cadmus follows a brindled cow until it lies down and he chooses a home» 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	7 assign	obl
3	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 what	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 assign	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 oracle	det
6	oracle	oracle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 assign	nsubj
7	assign	assign	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 role	det
9	role	role	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 assign	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 guide	case
11	guide	guide	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 role	nmod
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 Cadmus	case
13	Cadmus	Cadmus	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 assign	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 assign	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	assign	past · do-support	the oracle	the role of guide	Cadmus				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent role=Theme to what=Goal

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 sacred brindled cow from the herds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 cow	det
2	sacred	sacred	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cow	amod
3	brindled	brindled	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cow	amod
4	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 herds	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 herds	det
7	herds	herd	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 cow	nmod

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

Option 2

a golden eagle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 eagle	det
2	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 eagle	amod
3	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

a white horse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 horse	det
2	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 horse	amod
3	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

the brindled cow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cow	det
2	brindled	brindled	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cow	amod
3	cow	cow	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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