Exam question 1 · Book of Dragons, The Blacksmith and the Dragon, part 2: Jo…
Which item did the dragon demand from the blacksmith as a pledge?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: item · What happens: do · To what, where: dragon demand, blacksmith
This is exam question 1 of lesson 651 «Book of Dragons, The Blacksmith and the Dragon, part 2: John finds a dragon in the dungeon and chains it up with his baby as a pledge» 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 item | det |
| 2 | item | item | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 demand | det |
| 5 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 demand | compound |
| 6 | demand | demand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obj |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 blacksmith | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 blacksmith | det |
| 9 | blacksmith | blacksmith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obl |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 pledge | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 pledge | det |
| 12 | pledge | pledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | which item | the dragon demand | the blacksmith | as a pledge | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent demand=Eventuality |
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 · ✓ the right answer
That which the blacksmith valued most
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 valued | nsubj |
| 2 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 valued | obj |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 blacksmith | det |
| 4 | blacksmith | blacksmith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 valued | nsubj |
| 5 | valued | value | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 valued | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | value | past | That | most | tree rules |
Option 2
That which the king had given him
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 given | obl |
| 2 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 given | obj |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 given | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 given | aux |
| 6 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 given | iobj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past · perfect | the king | That | him = he | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient which=Theme |
Option 3
That which the dragon wanted
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 wanted | nsubj |
| 2 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 wanted | obj |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 dragon | det |
| 4 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wanted | nsubj |
| 5 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | That | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot which=Theme |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
His hammer
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 hammer | nmod:poss |
| 2 | hammer | hammer | 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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