Exam question 4 · The Book of Dragons, The Last of the Dragons, part 27: Edm…

Indicate the purpose for which Edmund was instructed to laugh at the dragon.

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: indicate, instruct, laugh · To what, where: purpose, Edmund

This is exam question 4 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	Indicate	indicate	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 purpose	det
3	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Indicate	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 instructed	obl
6	Edmund	Edmund	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 instructed	nsubj:pass
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 instructed	aux:pass
8	instructed	instruct	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Indicate	parataxis
9	to	to	PART	_	10 laugh	mark
10	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 instructed	xcomp
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 dragon	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 dragon	det
13	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 laugh	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Indicate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	indicate	imperative	you not said here	the purpose		vn indicate-78-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot purpose=Topic
2	instruct speech: other	past · passive		Edmund		vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
3	laugh	to-infinitive			at the dragon	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 right answer

to draw the dragon out of her lair

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 draw	mark
2	draw	draw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dragon	det
4	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 draw	obj
5	out	out	ADP	_	8 lair	case
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 lair	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 lair	nmod:poss
8	lair	lair	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 draw	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	draw	to-infinitive		the dragon		dragon's lair			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent dragon=Theme out lair=Initial_Location

Option 2

to make the dragon leave the town

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 make	mark
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dragon	det
4	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	obj
5	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 make	xcomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 town	det
7	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 leave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive		the dragon					tree rules
2	leave	infinitive	the dragon not said here	the town					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent town=Theme

Option 3

to make her cry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 make	mark
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 make	obj
4	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive		her = she					tree rules
2	cry speech: express	infinitive	her = she not said here						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

so the dragon would come out now

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	so	so	ADV	_	5 come	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dragon	det
3	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 come	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 come	aux
5	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	out	out	ADV	_	5 come	advmod
7	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 come	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come out	would	the dragon				now	out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient

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