Exam question 1 · English Fairy Tales, The Little Bull-Calf: the boy kills t…

Which part of the lad's body was severed by the dragon's bite prior to its death?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: bite, dragon, part · What happens: sever, bite, die · To what, where: part

This is exam question 1 of lesson 261 «English Fairy Tales, The Little Bull-Calf: the boy kills the dragon and wins the princess» 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 part	det
2	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 severed	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	7 body	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 lad	det
5	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 body	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 lad	case
7	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 part	nmod
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 severed	aux:pass
9	severed	sever	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	by	by	ADP	_	14 bite	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 dragon	det
12	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 bite	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 dragon	case
14	bite	bite	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 severed	obl
15	prior	prior	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	18 death	case
16	to	to	ADP	_	15 prior	fixed
17	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 death	nmod:poss
18	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 severed	obl
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 severed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	sever	past · passive	the dragon's bite	which part of the lad's body	prior part's death	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
2	bite		the dragon			nom bite «state transitive»: poss=agent
3	die		part			nom death «event intransitive»: 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

the thumb

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 thumb	det
2	thumb	thumb	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

the left ear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 ear	det
2	left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 ear	amod
3	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

the middle finger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 finger	det
2	middle	middle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 finger	amod
3	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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

the forefinger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 forefinger	det
2	forefinger	forefinger	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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/261-pg14241-part28/e1/