Exam question 2 · Book of Dragons, The Last of the Dragons, part 20: the dra…

According to the narrative, what did the rich lady order from John?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: narrative · What happens: accord, do · To what, where: rich lady order, John

This is exam question 2 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	According	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 narrative	case
2	to	to	ADP	_	1 According	fixed
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 narrative	det
4	narrative	narrative	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 did	punct
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 did	nsubj
7	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 narrative	acl:relcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 order	det
9	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 order	amod
10	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 order	compound
11	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 did	obj
12	from	from	ADP	_	13 John	case
13	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 order	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 narrative	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	accord	gerund							vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
2	do	past	the narrative	the rich lady order		John			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=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 · ← Mova's choice

a pair of shoes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 pair	det
2	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 shoes	case
4	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 pair	nmod

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

Option 2

a set of tools

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 set	det
2	set	set	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 tools	case
4	tools	tool	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 set	nmod

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

Option 3

a set of spurs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 set	det
2	set	set	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 spurs	case
4	spurs	spur	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 set	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

a complete set of shoes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 set	det
2	complete	complete	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 set	amod
3	set	set	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 shoes	case
5	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 set	nmod

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

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