Exam question 4 · Book of Beasts, The Red Dragon, part 3: Lionel summons a M…
What physical condition afflicted the Dragon at the Pebbly Waste, as the narrative states?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: physical condition · What happens: afflict · To what, where: Dragon, Pebbly Waste
This is exam question 4 of lesson 635 «Book of Beasts, The Red Dragon, part 3: Lionel summons a Manticora, then a Hippogriff, and chases the Dragon to the Pebbly Waste» 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 afflicted | obj |
| 2 | physical | physical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 condition | amod |
| 3 | condition | condition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 afflicted | nsubj |
| 4 | afflicted | afflict | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Dragon | det |
| 6 | Dragon | Dragon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 afflicted | obj |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 Waste | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Waste | det |
| 9 | Pebbly | pebbly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Waste | amod |
| 10 | Waste | waste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 afflicted | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 states | punct |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 states | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 states | det |
| 14 | narrative | narrative | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 states | compound |
| 15 | states | state | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 afflicted | obl |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 afflicted | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | afflict | past | physical condition | the Dragon | the Pebbly Waste | as the narrative states | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus what=Experiencer dragon=Result |
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
excessive heat from the sun and a dry, dusty throat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | excessive | excessive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 heat | amod |
| 2 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 sun | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sun | det |
| 5 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 heat | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 throat | cc |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 throat | det |
| 8 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 throat | amod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 dry | punct |
| 10 | dusty | dusty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 throat | amod |
| 11 | throat | throat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 heat | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
a sore head from the ride
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 head | det |
| 2 | sore | sore | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 head | amod |
| 3 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 ride | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 ride | det |
| 6 | ride | ride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 head | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
excessive heat from the sun
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | excessive | excessive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 heat | amod |
| 2 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 sun | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sun | det |
| 5 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 heat | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
excessive heat from the blazing sun and no shade
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | excessive | excessive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 heat | amod |
| 2 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 sun | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sun | det |
| 5 | blazing | blazing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sun | compound |
| 6 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 heat | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 shade | cc |
| 8 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 9 shade | det |
| 9 | shade | shade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sun | conj |
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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