Exam question 1 · Tanglewood, The Dragon's Teeth, part 20: Cadmus sets the f…

With reference to the passage, which person instructed the five surviving warriors to return their weapons to the scabbards?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · What happens: instruct, survive, return · To what, where: five surviving warriors, weapons, scabbards

This is exam question 1 of lesson 2061 «Tanglewood, The Dragon's Teeth, part 20: Cadmus sets the five dragon-born warriors to build a city, finds a magic palace, and meets Harmonia» 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	With	with	ADP	_	2 reference	case
2	reference	reference	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 instructed	obl
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 passage	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 passage	det
5	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reference	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 person	punct
7	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	8 person	det
8	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 passage	conj
9	instructed	instruct	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 warriors	det
11	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 warriors	nummod
12	surviving	survive	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 warriors	amod
13	warriors	warrior	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 instructed	obj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 return	mark
15	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 instructed	advcl
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 weapons	nmod:poss
17	weapons	weapon	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 return	obj
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 scabbards	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 scabbards	det
20	scabbards	scabbard	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 return	obl
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 instructed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	instruct speech: other	past	the five surviving warriors		with reference to the passage and which person	vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent warrior=Recipient
2	survive	gerund				vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	return	to-infinitive	warriors's weapons	the scabbards		vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent weapon=Theme to scabbard=Destination

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

Ulysses

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ulysses	Ulysses	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Ares

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ares	ar	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

Europa

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Europa	Europa	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Cadmus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cadmus	Cadmus	PROPN	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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