Exam question 3 · The Magic City, The North Pole, part 13: George and Jane m…

State the purpose for which the sealskin dwarfs kindled their fires.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: State purpose, dwarfs · What happens: kindle, fire · To what, where: fires

This is exam question 3 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	State	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 purpose	compound
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 purpose	det
3	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 kindled	nsubj
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 kindled	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 dwarfs	det
7	sealskin	sealskin	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dwarfs	compound
8	dwarfs	dwarf	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 kindled	nsubj
9	kindled	kindle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 fires	nmod:poss
11	fires	fire	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 kindled	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 kindled	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kindle	past	the State purpose	dwarfs's fires					vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent fire=Product for which=Beneficiary
2	fire		dwarfs = dwarf						nom fire «event transitive»: poss=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 · ✓ the right answer

to thaw the dragon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 thaw	mark
2	thaw	thaw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dragon	det
4	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 thaw	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	thaw	to-infinitive		the dragon					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient dragon=Result

Option 2

to melt the ice so the dragon could be woken up slowly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 melt	mark
2	melt	melt	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ice	det
4	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 melt	obj
5	so	so	SCONJ	_	10 woken	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dragon	det
7	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 woken	nsubj:pass
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 woken	aux
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 woken	aux:pass
10	woken	wake	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 melt	advcl
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 woken	compound:prt
12	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	2 melt	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	melt	to-infinitive		the ice				slowly property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient ice=Result
2	wake up	could · passive		the dragon					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient

Option 3

to melt the Pole

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 melt	mark
2	melt	melt	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Pole	det
4	Pole	Pole	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 melt	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	melt	to-infinitive		the Pole					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient pole=Result

Option 4

to frighten the children and keep them away from the dragon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 frighten	mark
2	frighten	frighten	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 children	det
4	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 frighten	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 keep	cc
6	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 frighten	conj
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 keep	obj
8	away	away	ADV	_	6 keep	advmod
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 dragon	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 dragon	det
11	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 away	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	frighten	to-infinitive		the children					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus child=Experiencer
2	keep	infinitive		children = child				away property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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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