Exam question 4 · How films are made: script, crew, sets, editing

Ascertain the person principally responsible for the assembly of filmed shots into their final order.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, shots · What happens: ascertain, film, order · To what, where: person, final order

This is exam question 4 of lesson 22 «How films are made: script, crew, sets, editing» 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 person	det
3	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
4	principally	principally	ADV	_	5 responsible	advmod
5	responsible	responsible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 person	amod
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 assembly	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 assembly	det
8	assembly	assembly	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 responsible	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 shots	case
10	filmed	film	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 shots	amod
11	shots	shot	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 assembly	nmod
12	into	into	ADP	_	15 order	case
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 order	nmod:poss
14	final	final	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 order	amod
15	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the person	shots's final order	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Topic
2	film	participle				vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	order		shots = shot			nom order «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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The editor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 editor	det
2	editor	editor	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

The costume maker

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 maker	det
2	costume	costume	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 maker	amod
3	maker	maker	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

The caterer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 caterer	det
2	caterer	caterer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

The member of the audience

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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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