Exam question 2 · pg23661, Edmund and the Dragon, the town on the hillside:…

Upon what ground did the master dismiss Edmund's account?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: master, Edmund · What happens: dismiss, account · To what, where: account

This is exam question 2 of lesson 660 «pg23661, Edmund and the Dragon, the town on the hillside: Edmund tricks the dragon and saves her drakling» 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	Upon	upon	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 dismiss	obl
3	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 what	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 dismiss	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 master	det
6	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dismiss	nsubj
7	dismiss	dismiss	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	Edmund	Edmund	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 account	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 Edmund	case
10	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dismiss	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 dismiss	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dismiss	past · do-support	the master	Edmund's account					vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent account=Theme
2	account		Edmund						nom account «communication transitive»: poss=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

Because the class had no proof of anything

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	4 had	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 class	det
3	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 proof	det
6	proof	proof	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 anything	case
8	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 proof	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the class	no proof of anything					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent proof=Patient
2	proof			anything					nom proof «cognition transitive»: of=patient

Option 2

On the ground that the storm and earthquake had caused Edmund to imagine the whole thing

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	On	on	ADP	_	3 ground	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 ground	det
3	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 caused	obl
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 caused	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 storm	det
6	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 caused	nsubj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 earthquake	cc
8	earthquake	earthquake	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 storm	conj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 caused	aux
10	caused	cause	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
11	Edmund	Edmund	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 caused	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 imagine	mark
13	imagine	imagine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 caused	xcomp
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 thing	det
15	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 thing	amod
16	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 imagine	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	past · perfect	the storm and earthquake	Edmund		the ground			tree rules
2	imagine	to-infinitive	Edmund not said here	the whole thing					vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot thing=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

On the ground of a thunderstorm and earthquake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	On	on	ADP	_	3 ground	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 ground	det
3	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 thunderstorm	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 thunderstorm	det
6	thunderstorm	thunderstorm	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ground	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 earthquake	cc
8	earthquake	earthquake	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 thunderstorm	conj

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

Option 4

Because the teacher had seen the map before

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	5 seen	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 teacher	det
3	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 seen	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 seen	aux
5	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 map	det
7	map	map	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 seen	obj
8	before	before	ADV	_	5 seen	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past · perfect	the teacher	the map				before property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer map=Stimulus

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