Exam question 2 · Book of Dragons, The Last of the Dragons, part 8: a dragon…

To what sum did the professor offer to purchase the tiny newt from Harry?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: sum · What happens: do, purchase · To what, where: professor offer, tiny newt, Harry

This is exam question 2 of lesson 640 «Book of Dragons, The Last of the Dragons, part 8: a dragon in Effie's eye is followed by a plague of dragons across the land» 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	To	to	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	obj
3	sum	sum	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 offer	det
6	professor	professor	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 offer	compound
7	offer	offer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 purchase	mark
9	purchase	purchase	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 offer	acl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 newt	det
11	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 newt	amod
12	newt	newt	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 purchase	obj
13	from	from	ADP	_	14 Harry	case
14	Harry	Harry	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 purchase	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	sum	the professor offer					tree rules
2	purchase	to-infinitive	sum not said here	the tiny newt		Harry			vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent newt=Theme from harry=Source

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

five pounds and a brand new hat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 pounds	nummod
2	pounds	pound	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 hat	cc
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 hat	det
5	brand	brand	ADV	_	6 new	advmod
6	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 hat	amod
7	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pounds	conj

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

Option 2

three shillings

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 shillings	nummod
2	shillings	shilling	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

two shillings

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 shillings	nummod
2	shillings	shilling	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

half a crown

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	3 crown	det:predet
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 crown	det
3	crown	crown	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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