Exam question 3 · Book of Dragons, The Blacksmith and the Dragon, part 2: Jo…

What was the purpose of the blacksmith's departure from the dungeon?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: purpose, departure, blacksmith · What happens: be, purpose, depart · To what, where: dungeon

This is exam question 3 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 purpose	det
4	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	9 departure	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 blacksmith	det
7	blacksmith	blacksmith	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 departure	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 blacksmith	case
9	departure	departure	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 purpose	nmod
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 dungeon	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 dungeon	det
12	dungeon	dungeon	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 departure	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	is a	past	the purpose of the blacksmith's departure from the dungeon		tree rules
2	purpose		the blacksmith's departure from the dungeon		nom purpose «cognition intransitive»: of=agent
3	depart		the blacksmith	the dungeon	nom departure «act intransitive»: poss=agent from=place

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

To fetch tools

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 fetch	mark
2	fetch	fetch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	tools	tool	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 fetch	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fetch	to-infinitive		tools					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tool=Theme

Option 2

To collect more iron

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 collect	mark
2	collect	collect	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 iron	amod
4	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 collect	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	collect	to-infinitive		more iron					vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent iron=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

To procure additional rivets

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 procure	mark
2	procure	procure	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	additional	additional	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 rivets	amod
4	rivets	rivet	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 procure	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	procure	to-infinitive		additional rivets					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rivet=Theme

Option 4

To repair the dragon's wing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 repair	mark
2	repair	repair	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dragon	det
4	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wing	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 dragon	case
6	wing	wing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 repair	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	repair	to-infinitive		the dragon's wing					vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent wing=Patient

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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