Exam question 1 · Rotundia Tales, Uncle James or The Purple Stranger, part 4…

Which object did the Dragon regard upon the Pebbly Waste before he returned to his illustration?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: object · What happens: do, return, illustrate · To what, where: Dragon regard

This is exam question 1 of lesson 636 «Rotundia Tales, Uncle James or The Purple Stranger, part 4: the Dragon goes back into his picture, and the island that spun the wrong way gives Rotundia its wrong-sized animals» 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 regard	det
5	Dragon	Dragon	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 regard	compound
6	regard	regard	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
7	upon	upon	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	6 regard	nmod
11	before	before	SCONJ	_	13 returned	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 returned	nsubj
13	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 did	advcl
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 illustration	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 illustration	nmod:poss
16	illustration	illustration	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 returned	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past	which object	the Dragon regard	upon the Pebbly Waste	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent regard=Eventuality
2	return	past	object		to object's illustration result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to illustration=Result
3	illustrate		object			nom illustration «communication 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

The Golden Crown

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Crown	det
2	Golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Crown	amod
3	Crown	Crown	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

The Pebble

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ 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 Spinning Rock

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Rock	det
2	Spinning	Spinning	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Rock	compound
3	Rock	Rock	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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