Exam question 1 · The Book of Dragons, The Last of the Dragons: Nigel must w…
Which colour is the gown worn by the Princess upon her first appearance?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: colour · What happens: be, wear · To what, where: gown
This is exam question 1 of lesson 649 «The Book of Dragons, The Last of the Dragons: Nigel must work out the dragon's sleep, and the dragon turns to stone» 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 | DET | PronType=Int | 2 colour | det |
| 2 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gown | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 gown | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 gown | det |
| 5 | gown | gown | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | worn | wear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 gown | acl |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 Princess | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Princess | det |
| 9 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 worn | obl |
| 10 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 13 appearance | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 appearance | nmod:poss |
| 12 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 13 appearance | amod |
| 13 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Princess | nmod |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 gown | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | which colour | the gown | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | wear | participle | the gown not said here | by the Princess upon Princess's first appearance | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: 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
Yellow
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Red
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Green
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Green | green | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Tan
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tan | Tan | PROPN | 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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