Exam question 4 · The Book of Dragons, The Last of the Dragons: Nigel must w…
What was the ultimate fate of the dragon upon the sands?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be · To what, where: ultimate fate
This is exam question 4 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 fate | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 fate | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 fate | det |
| 4 | ultimate | ultimate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 fate | amod |
| 5 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 dragon | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 dragon | det |
| 8 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fate | nmod |
| 9 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 11 sands | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sands | det |
| 11 | sands | sand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 dragon | nmod |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 fate | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the ultimate fate | of the dragon upon the sands | tree rules |
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
Petrifaction into stone
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Petrifaction | petrifaction | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | into | into | ADP | _ | 3 stone | case |
| 3 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Petrifaction | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Melted into the sand
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Melted | melt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | into | into | ADP | _ | 4 sand | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sand | det |
| 4 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Melted | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | melt | participle | the sand | vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material into sand=Product |
Option 3
Drowning
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Drowning | drown | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drown | gerund | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
Burnt to ash on the beach
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Burnt | burnt | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 ash | amod |
| 2 | to | to | PART | _ | 3 ash | mark |
| 3 | ash | ash | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 beach | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 beach | det |
| 6 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ash | nmod |
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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