Exam question 1 · Book of Dragons, The Last of the Dragons, part 20: the dra…

Which trade is practised by John, as is stated in the narrative?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: John · What happens: practise, state · To what, where: trade, narrative

This is exam question 1 of lesson 652 «Book of Dragons, The Last of the Dragons, part 20: the dragon minds the baby, then fights a giant» 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 trade	det
2	trade	trade	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 practised	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 practised	aux:pass
4	practised	practise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 John	case
6	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 practised	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 stated	punct
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 stated	mark
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 stated	aux:pass
10	stated	state	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 practised	advcl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 narrative	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 narrative	det
13	narrative	narrative	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stated	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 practised	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	practise	present · passive	John	which trade					tree rules
2	state speech: other	present · passive	John not said here			the narrative			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»

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

blacksmith

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	blacksmith	blacksmith	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

carpenter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	carpenter	carpenter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

a master blacksmith and tinsmith

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 blacksmith	det
2	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 blacksmith	compound
3	blacksmith	blacksmith	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 tinsmith	cc
5	tinsmith	tinsmith	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 blacksmith	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

the town's blacksmith and farrier

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 town	det
2	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 blacksmith	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 town	case
4	blacksmith	blacksmith	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 farrier	cc
6	farrier	farrier	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 blacksmith	conj

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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