Exam question 2 · Nesbit's tales, The Book of Beasts, part 2: the Dragon fli…
Upon what day of the week did the Red Dragon descend upon the common?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Red Dragon · What happens: descend
This is exam question 2 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 | Upon | upon | ADP | _ | 3 day | case |
| 2 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 3 day | det |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 descend | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 week | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 week | det |
| 6 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 day | nmod |
| 7 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 descend | aux |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Dragon | det |
| 9 | Red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Dragon | flat |
| 10 | Dragon | Dragon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 descend | nsubj |
| 11 | descend | descend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 14 common | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 common | det |
| 14 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 descend | obl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 descend | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | descend | past · do-support | the Red Dragon | day | upon the common | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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
Sunday
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sunday | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Saturday
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Saturday | Saturday | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Early on the first weekend day of the week
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 day | advmod |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 day | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 day | det |
| 4 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 day | amod |
| 5 | weekend | weekend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 day | compound |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 week | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 week | det |
| 9 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 day | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Tuesday
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tuesday | Tuesday | 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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