Exam question 4 · Book of Dragons, The Blacksmith and the Dragon, part 2: Jo…
To what cause does the author attribute the infant's cessation of weeping?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: author, infant · What happens: attribute, cease · To what, where: cessation, weeping
This is exam question 4 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 2 what | case |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 attribute | obl |
| 3 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 what | nsubj |
| 4 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 attribute | aux |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 author | det |
| 6 | author | author | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 attribute | nsubj |
| 7 | attribute | attribute | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 infant | det |
| 9 | infant | infant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cessation | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 infant | case |
| 11 | cessation | cessation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 attribute | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 weeping | case |
| 13 | weeping | weeping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cessation | nmod |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 attribute | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | attribute | present · do-support | the author | the infant's cessation of weeping | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cease | the infant | weeping | nom cessation «event transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |
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
The purring of the dragon
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 purring | det |
| 2 | purring | purring | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 dragon | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 dragon | det |
| 5 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 purring | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The dragon's loud roar
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 dragon | det |
| 2 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 roar | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 dragon | case |
| 4 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 roar | amod |
| 5 | roar | roar | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roar | the dragon | nom roar «event intransitive»: poss=agent |
Option 3
The dragon's song
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 dragon | det |
| 2 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 song | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 dragon | case |
| 4 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing | the dragon | nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
Option 4
The sound of the hammer
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 sound | det |
| 2 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 hammer | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 hammer | det |
| 5 | hammer | hammer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sound | 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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