Exam question 1 · Andersen, The Story of the Year, part 243: Summer rests in…

Which of the following characters is described as sitting on the rock by the heaving salt sea?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: follow, describe, sit · To what, where: rock

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1032 «Andersen, The Story of the Year, part 243: Summer rests in autumn and the old Winter waits for the stork» 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 described	obj
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 characters	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 characters	det
4	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 characters	amod
5	characters	character	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 described	obl
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 described	aux:pass
7	described	describe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 sitting	mark
9	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 described	advcl
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 rock	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 rock	det
12	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sitting	obl
13	by	by	ADP	_	17 sea	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 sea	det
15	heaving	heaving	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 salt	compound
16	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sea	compound
17	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sitting	obl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 described	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	where	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	describe	present · passive		of the following characters	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: which=Theme
3	sit	gerund	the rock	by the salt sea	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on rock=Location

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 queen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Summer himself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	1 Summer	nmod:unmarked

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

Option 3

The old farmer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

The stork

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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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