Exam question 1 · Book of Dragons, Uncle James, or The Purple Dragon, part 6…

Which character is described by the narrator as both a magician and an uncle named James?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: narrator · What happens: describe, name · To what, where: character, uncle

This is exam question 1 of lesson 638 «Book of Dragons, Uncle James, or The Purple Dragon, part 6: the dragon's birthday plot is revealed and the Princess is offered as a present» 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 character	det
2	character	character	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 described	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 described	aux:pass
4	described	describe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 narrator	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 narrator	det
7	narrator	narrator	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 described	obl
8	as	as	ADP	_	11 magician	case
9	both	both	CCONJ	_	11 magician	cc:preconj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 magician	det
11	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 described	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 uncle	cc
13	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 uncle	det
14	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 magician	conj
15	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 uncle	acl
16	James	James	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 named	xcomp
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 described	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	describe	present · passive	the narrator	which character				as a magician and a uncle	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent subject=Theme as magician=Attribute
2	name	participle		a uncle not said here					vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice

the King

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 King	det
2	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Uncle James

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	James	James	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Uncle	flat

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

Option 3

the dragon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

Tom

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tom	Tom	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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