Exam question 1 · Nesbit's tales, The Book of Beasts, part 2: the Dragon fli…

Which object did the young sovereign first open upon the study table?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: object · What happens: do · To what, where: young sovereign

This is exam question 1 of lesson 634 «Nesbit's tales, The Book of Beasts, part 2: the Dragon flies out, takes the soccer game, and ends Parliament» 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 object	det
2	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sovereign	det
5	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sovereign	amod
6	sovereign	sovereign	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
7	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 open	advmod
8	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sovereign	amod
9	upon	upon	ADP	_	12 table	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 table	det
11	study	study	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 table	compound
12	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 open	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	which object	the young sovereign					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sovereign=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

The large brown book that lay on the study table

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 book	det
2	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 book	amod
3	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 book	amod
4	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 lay	nsubj
6	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 book	acl:relcl
7	on	on	ADP	_	10 table	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 table	det
9	study	study	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 table	compound
10	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lay	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	past	the large brown book			the study table			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on table=Location

Option 2

The Tale of Monsters

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Tale	det
2	Tale	Tale	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Monsters	case
4	Monsters	Monster	PROPN	Number=Plur	2 Tale	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The Book of Beasts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Book	det
2	Book	Book	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Beasts	case
4	Beasts	Beast	PROPN	Number=Plur	2 Book	nmod

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

Option 4

The Book of Dragons

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Book	det
2	Book	Book	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Dragons	case
4	Dragons	Dragon	PROPN	Number=Plur	2 Book	nmod

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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