Exam question 4 · pg23661, Edmund and the Dragon, the town on the hillside:…

What is the condition of Edmund at the close of the narrative?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: condition · What happens: be, condition · To what, where: Edmund, close

This is exam question 4 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 condition	det
4	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 Edmund	case
6	Edmund	Edmund	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 condition	nmod
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 close	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 close	det
9	close	close	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 condition	nmod
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 narrative	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 narrative	det
12	narrative	narrative	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 close	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the condition of Edmund at the close of the narrative						tree rules
2	condition			Edmund		the close of the narrative			nom condition «state transitive»: of=patient at=place

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

He is aged and has not opened the door

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 aged	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 aged	cop
3	aged	aged	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 opened	cc
5	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 opened	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 opened	advmod
7	opened	open	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 aged	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 door	det
9	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 opened	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					aged property	tree rules
2	not open	present · perfect	He not said here	the door					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme

Option 2

He is aged and never became a locksmith

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 aged	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 aged	cop
3	aged	aged	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 became	cc
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 became	advmod
6	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 aged	conj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 locksmith	det
8	locksmith	locksmith	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 became	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					aged property	tree rules
2	not become	past	He not said here	a locksmith					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 3

He is very old now, has a white beard, and still never opened the cockatrice's door

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 old	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 old	cop
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 old	advmod
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 old	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 has	punct
7	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 old	parataxis
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 beard	det
9	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 beard	amod
10	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 has	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 opened	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 opened	cc
13	still	still	ADV	_	15 opened	advmod
14	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	15 opened	advmod
15	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 old	parataxis
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 cockatrice	det
17	cockatrice	cockatrice	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 door	nmod:poss
18	's	's	PART	_	17 cockatrice	case
19	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 opened	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He		now	old property	tree rules
2	have	present		a white beard			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beard=Patient
3	not open	past		the cockatrice's door	still		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

He is aged, retired, and lives alone by the sea, having never learned to pick any lock

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 aged	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 aged	cop
3	aged	aged	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 retired	punct
5	retired	retired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 aged	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 lives	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 lives	cc
8	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 aged	conj
9	alone	alone	ADV	_	8 lives	advmod
10	by	by	ADP	_	12 sea	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 sea	det
12	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lives	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 having	punct
14	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 learned	advcl
15	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	16 learned	advmod
16	learned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 aged	parataxis
17	to	to	PART	_	18 pick	mark
18	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 learned	xcomp
19	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	20 lock	det
20	lock	lock	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 pick	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	He		aged property	tree rules
2	be		He not said here			tree rules
3	live	present	He not said here		by the sea; alone property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by sea=Location
4	have	gerund				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	not learn	past				vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	pick	to-infinitive		any lock		vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lock=Patient

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