Exam question 1 · The Book of Dragons, The Last of the Dragons, part 27: Edm…

Pursuant to the narrative, state the place to which Edmund first repaired upon learning of the catastrophe.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: repair · To what, where: Edmund

This is exam question 1 of lesson 659 «The Book of Dragons, The Last of the Dragons, part 27: Edmund fetches the drakling and tricks it into the fire-shaft» 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	Pursuant	pursuant	ADV	_	4 narrative	advmod
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 narrative	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 narrative	det
4	narrative	narrative	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 state	punct
6	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 narrative	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 place	det
8	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 state	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 which	case
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 repaired	obl
11	Edmund	Edmund	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 repaired	nsubj:pass
12	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	13 repaired	advmod
13	repaired	repair	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 place	acl:relcl
14	upon	upon	ADP	_	15 learning	case
15	learning	learning	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 repaired	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 catastrophe	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 catastrophe	det
18	catastrophe	catastrophe	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 learning	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 narrative	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	repair	participle · passive		Edmund				to the place; upon learning of the catastrophe; first property	vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient

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

to the cave of the cockatrice on the far side of the town

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	ADP	_	3 cave	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cave	det
3	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 cockatrice	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cockatrice	det
6	cockatrice	cockatrice	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cave	nmod
7	on	on	ADP	_	10 side	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 side	det
9	far	far	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 side	amod
10	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cockatrice	nmod
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 town	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 town	det
13	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 side	nmod

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

Option 2

to the house of his teacher

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	ADP	_	3 house	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 house	det
3	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 teacher	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 teacher	nmod:poss
6	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 house	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

to the cave of the cockatrice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	ADP	_	3 cave	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cave	det
3	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 cockatrice	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cockatrice	det
6	cockatrice	cockatrice	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cave	nmod

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

Option 4

to the great cave where the old cockatrice lived with her eggs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	ADP	_	4 cave	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cave	det
3	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cave	amod
4	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lived	obl
5	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	9 lived	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cockatrice	det
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 cockatrice	amod
8	cockatrice	cockatrice	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lived	nsubj
9	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 eggs	case
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 eggs	nmod:poss
12	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 lived	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	the old cockatrice					to the great cave; with cockatrice's eggs	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with egg=Location

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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