Exam question 4 · Book of Dragons, The Last of the Dragons, part 20: the dra…
Which assertion accurately describes the outcome of the contest between the dragon and the giant?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: assertion · What happens: describe · To what, where: outcome
This is exam question 4 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 assertion | det |
| 2 | assertion | assertion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 describes | nsubj |
| 3 | accurately | accurately | ADV | _ | 4 describes | advmod |
| 4 | describes | describe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 outcome | det |
| 6 | outcome | outcome | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 describes | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 contest | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 contest | det |
| 9 | contest | contest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 outcome | nmod |
| 10 | between | between | ADP | _ | 12 dragon | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 dragon | det |
| 12 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 contest | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 giant | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 giant | det |
| 15 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 dragon | conj |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 describes | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | describe | present | which assertion | the outcome of the contest between the dragon and the giant | accurately property | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent outcome=Theme |
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 giant was victorious
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 giant | det |
| 2 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 victorious | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 victorious | cop |
| 4 | victorious | victorious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the giant | victorious property | tree rules |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
the dragon was victorious
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 victorious | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 victorious | cop |
| 4 | victorious | victorious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the dragon | victorious property | tree rules |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
neither side was the winner
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | neither | neither | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 side | det |
| 2 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 winner | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 winner | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 winner | det |
| 5 | winner | winner | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | neither side | the winner | tree rules |
Option 4
the dragon won
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 | 3 won | nsubj |
| 3 | won | win | 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 | win | past | the dragon | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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