Exam question 4 · Book of Dragons, The Last of the Dragons, part 9: Harry an…
Which of the following identifies the substance which Harry applied to the sculpture of St. George?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: substance · What happens: follow, identify, apply · To what, where: substance
This is exam question 4 of lesson 641 «Book of Dragons, The Last of the Dragons, part 9: Harry and Effie seek St. George, fail to wake him, and are seized by a dragon» 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 | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 identifies | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 5 identifies | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 identifies | det |
| 4 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 identifies | nsubj |
| 5 | identifies | identify | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 substance | det |
| 7 | substance | substance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 identifies | obj |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 applied | nsubj |
| 9 | Harry | Harry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 applied | nsubj |
| 10 | applied | apply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 substance | acl:relcl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 sculpture | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sculpture | det |
| 13 | sculpture | sculpture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 applied | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 George | case |
| 15 | St. | St. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 George | nmod:desc |
| 16 | George | George | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 sculpture | nmod |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 identifies | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | identify | present | the substance | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent substance=Theme | |||||
| 3 | apply | past | the substance | to the sculpture of George St. | vn use-105.1 «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
Green ointment
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 ointment | amod |
| 2 | ointment | ointment | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Paint
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Paint | paint | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A thick paste made from the vicar's garden herbs
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 paste | det |
| 2 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 paste | amod |
| 3 | paste | paste | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 paste | acl |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 herbs | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 vicar | det |
| 7 | vicar | vicar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 herbs | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 vicar | case |
| 9 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 herbs | compound |
| 10 | herbs | herb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 made | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | participle | a thick paste not said here | the vicar's garden herbs | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset from herb=Material |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Dragon poison
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dragon | Dragon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 poison | compound |
| 2 | poison | poison | 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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