Exam question 2 · pg23661, Sabrinetta and Elfin, part 24: the dragon is trap…

Which injury did Elfin sustain in the course of confining the dragon, and to what degree?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: injury, course · What happens: sustain, confine · To what, where: course, dragon

This is exam question 2 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 injury	det
2	injury	injury	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sustain	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sustain	aux
4	Elfin	Elfin	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 sustain	nsubj
5	sustain	sustain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 course	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 course	det
8	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sustain	obl
9	of	of	SCONJ	_	10 confining	mark
10	confining	confine	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 course	acl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 dragon	det
12	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 confining	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 degree	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 degree	cc
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 degree	case
16	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	17 degree	det
17	degree	degree	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sustain	parataxis
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 sustain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sustain	past · do-support	which injury			the course			vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent
2	confine	gerund	the course not said here	the dragon					vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dragon=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

a sore hand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 hand	det
2	sore	sore	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hand	amod
3	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

burns that destroyed both of his hands

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	burns	burn	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 destroyed	nsubj
2	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 destroyed	nsubj
3	destroyed	destroy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	3 destroyed	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 hands	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 hands	nmod:poss
7	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 both	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	destroy	past	burns	both					vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent both=Patient

Option 3

burnt hands

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	burnt	burnt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 hands	amod
2	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

burns to his face and arms

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	burns	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 face	case
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 face	nmod:poss
4	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 burns	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 arms	cc
6	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 face	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	present						to his face and arms	vn light_emission-43.1 «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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