Exam question 1 · Nine Unlikely Tales, The Dragon of Rotundia: the dragon is…

Upon what object was the dragon's tail secured by the boy named Tom?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: object, boy · What happens: be, secure, name · To what, where: tail, Tom

This is exam question 1 of lesson 639 «Nine Unlikely Tales, The Dragon of Rotundia: the dragon is wound up on the pillar, the island spins, and everyone changes size» 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	Upon	upon	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 object	obl
3	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tail	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 tail	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dragon	det
6	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tail	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 dragon	case
8	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	secured	secure	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 tail	acl
10	by	by	ADP	_	12 boy	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 boy	det
12	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 secured	obl:agent
13	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 boy	acl
14	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 named	obj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 tail	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	past	object	the dragon's tail	tree rules
2	secure	participle		the dragon's tail not said here	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	name	participle	the boy not said here	Tom	vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tom=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 rock

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

a tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 tree	det
2	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

the cliff

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sea	det
2	sea	sea	NOUN	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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