Exam question 1 · pg23661, Sabrinetta and Elfin, part 24: the dragon is trap…

In which location did the dragon finally become contained, and by what means was this achieved?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: dragon · What happens: do, become, contain, mean, achieve · To what, where: dragon, location, this

This is exam question 1 of lesson 656 «pg23661, Sabrinetta and Elfin, part 24: the dragon is trapped in a bottle and Elfin's hands are burnt» 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 location	case
2	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	3 location	det
3	location	location	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obl
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dragon	det
6	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	finally	finally	ADV	_	8 become	advmod
8	become	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 dragon	acl:relcl
9	contained	contain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 become	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 means	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 means	cc
12	by	by	ADP	_	13 what	case
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 means	nsubj
14	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 achieved	aux:pass
16	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 achieved	nsubj:pass
17	achieved	achieve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 means	xcomp
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	past		the dragon	which location		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dragon=Eventuality
2	become	present	the dragon not said here			finally property	tree rules
3	contain	participle	the dragon not said here				vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot
4	mean	present					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	achieve not said to happen	past · passive		this			vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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 · ✓ the right answer

in the whirlpool, within the dragonproof bottle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	in	in	ADP	_	3 whirlpool	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 whirlpool	det
3	whirlpool	whirlpool	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 whirlpool	punct
5	within	within	ADP	_	8 bottle	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bottle	det
7	dragonproof	dragonproof	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bottle	amod
8	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 whirlpool	nmod

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

Option 2

inside the bottle at the bottom of the river

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	inside	inside	ADP	_	3 bottle	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bottle	det
3	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 bottom	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bottom	det
6	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bottle	nmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 river	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 river	det
9	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bottom	nmod

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

Option 3

in a bottle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	in	in	ADP	_	3 bottle	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 bottle	det
3	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

in the wood, by a fallen oak

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	in	in	ADP	_	3 wood	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wood	det
3	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 oak	punct
5	by	by	ADP	_	8 oak	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 oak	det
7	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 oak	amod
8	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wood	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	participle							vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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