Exam question 4 · Drawing: lines, shapes and drawing what you really see
Ascertain the position of the eyes upon a typical human head.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: ascertain · To what, where: position
This is exam question 4 of lesson 12 «Drawing: lines, shapes and drawing what you really see» of the arts 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 | Ascertain | ascertain | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 position | det |
| 3 | position | position | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ascertain | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 eyes | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 eyes | det |
| 6 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 position | nmod |
| 7 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 11 head | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 head | det |
| 9 | typical | typical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 head | amod |
| 10 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 head | amod |
| 11 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ascertain | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ascertain | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ascertain | imperative | you not said here | the position of the eyes | upon a typical human head | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent position=Topic |
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
Upon the uppermost quarter of the forehead
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Upon | upon | ADP | _ | 4 quarter | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 quarter | det |
| 3 | uppermost | uppermost | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 quarter | amod |
| 4 | quarter | quarter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 forehead | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 forehead | det |
| 7 | forehead | forehead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 quarter | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Approximately halfway between the crown and the chin
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Approximately | approximately | ADV | _ | 2 halfway | advmod |
| 2 | halfway | halfway | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 3 | between | between | ADP | _ | 5 crown | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 crown | det |
| 5 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 halfway | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 chin | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 chin | det |
| 8 | chin | chin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 crown | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Immediately beneath the crown of the head
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 4 crown | advmod |
| 2 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 4 crown | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 crown | det |
| 4 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 head | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 head | det |
| 7 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 crown | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crown | the head | nom crown «communication transitive»: of=patient |
Option 4
Immediately above the chin
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 2 | above | above | ADP | _ | 4 chin | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 chin | det |
| 4 | chin | chin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Immediately | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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