Exam question 2 · Book of Dragons, Uncle James, or The Purple Dragon, part 6…

On what date did the calendar indicate the Princess's birthday would fall?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: birthday · What happens: do, indicate, fall · To what, where: calendar, date

This is exam question 2 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	On	on	ADP	_	3 date	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 date	nsubj
3	date	date	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obl
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 calendar	det
6	calendar	calendar	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	indicate	indicate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 did	xcomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Princess	det
9	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 birthday	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 Princess	case
11	birthday	birthday	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fall	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 fall	aux
13	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 indicate	ccomp
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	do	past		the calendar	date	tree rules
2	indicate	infinitive				vn indicate-78-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Pivot clause=Topic
3	fall	would	the Princess's birthday			vn occur-48.3 «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 · ✓ the right answer

the fifteenth of August

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fifteenth	det
2	fifteenth	fifteenth	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 August	case
4	August	August	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 fifteenth	nmod

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

Option 2

June 3rd

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	June	June	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 3rd	compound
2	3rd	3rd	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord	root	root

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

Option 3

the eighteenth of July

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 eighteenth	det
2	eighteenth	eighteenth	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 July	case
4	July	July	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 eighteenth	nmod

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

Option 4

the first of May

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 first	det
2	first	first	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 May	case
4	May	May	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 first	nmod

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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