Exam question 3 · Nesbit's tales, The Book of Beasts, part 2: the Dragon fli…
What was the consequence, as recorded in the text, of the Dragon's second visitation?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Dragon · What happens: be, record, visit · To what, where: consequence, text
This is exam question 3 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 consequence | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 consequence | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 consequence | det |
| 4 | consequence | consequence | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 recorded | punct |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 recorded | mark |
| 7 | recorded | record | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 consequence | acl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 text | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 text | det |
| 10 | text | text | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 recorded | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 visitation | punct |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 visitation | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Dragon | det |
| 14 | Dragon | Dragon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 visitation | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 Dragon | case |
| 16 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 17 visitation | amod |
| 17 | visitation | visitation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 consequence | conj |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 consequence | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the consequence and the Dragon's second visitation | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | record | participle | the consequence and the Dragon's second visitation not said here | the text | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in text=Destination | ||||
| 3 | visit | the Dragon | nom visitation «event transitive»: 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
Chaos
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chaos | chaos | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Parliament was sent home for a week
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Parliament | Parliament | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sent | aux:pass |
| 3 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | home | home | ADV | _ | 3 sent | advmod |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 week | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 week | det |
| 7 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sent | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past · passive | Parliament | week | home property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
Option 3
No Members
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 Members | det |
| 2 | Members | member | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Parliament was left with no Members
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Parliament | Parliament | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 left | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 left | aux:pass |
| 3 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 Members | case |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 Members | det |
| 6 | Members | member | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 left | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past · passive | Parliament | with no Members | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: subject=Recipient with member=Theme |
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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