Exam question 2 · The Magic City, The North Pole, part 13: George and Jane m…

Identify the means by which the children were secured to the Pole.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, the · What happens: identify, mean, secure · To what, where: children · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 2 of lesson 645 «The Magic City, The North Pole, part 13: George and Jane meet a frozen dragon and are tied up by sealskin dwarfs.» 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 means	nsubj
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Identify	ccomp
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 secured	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 children	det
7	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 secured	nsubj:pass
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 secured	aux:pass
9	secured	secure	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 means	ccomp
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 Pole	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Pole	det
12	Pole	Pole	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 secured	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	mean	present	the			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	secure	past · passive		the children	to the Pole	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient to pole=Co-Patient

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

snow-wreaths

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wreaths	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 snow	punct
3	wreaths	wreath	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

string

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	string	string	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

sealskin straps

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sealskin	sealskin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 straps	compound
2	straps	strap	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

rope

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	rope	rope	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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