Exam question 4 · Andersen, The Story of the Year, part 243: Summer rests in…
Which natural object does the queen of the year gaze at while lying upon the fallen leaves?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: natural object, queen · What happens: do, gaze, lie, fall · To what, where: queen, fallen leaves
This is exam question 4 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 | 4 does | obj |
| 2 | natural | natural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 object | amod |
| 3 | object | object | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 does | nsubj |
| 4 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 queen | det |
| 6 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 does | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 year | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 year | det |
| 9 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gaze | obl |
| 10 | gaze | gaze | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 queen | acl:relcl |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 gaze | obl |
| 12 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 13 lying | mark |
| 13 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 gaze | advcl |
| 14 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 17 leaves | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 leaves | det |
| 16 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 leaves | amod |
| 17 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 lying | obl |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 does | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | natural object | the queen | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | gaze | infinitive | the queen not said here | year | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | lie | gerund | the queen not said here | the fallen leaves | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon leaf=Location | ||||
| 4 | fall | participle | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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
A distant hill
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 hill | det |
| 2 | distant | distant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 hill | amod |
| 3 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
A gleaming star
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 star | det |
| 2 | gleaming | gleaming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 star | compound |
| 3 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A bright star shining above the old tower in the night
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 star | det |
| 2 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 star | amod |
| 3 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | shining | shine | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 star | acl |
| 5 | above | above | ADP | _ | 8 tower | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 tower | det |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 tower | amod |
| 8 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shining | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 night | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 night | det |
| 11 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shining | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shine | gerund | a bright star not said here | the old tower | night | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme above tower=Location |
Option 4
A gleaming star over the distant salt sea
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 star | det |
| 2 | gleaming | gleam | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 star | amod |
| 3 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | over | over | ADP | _ | 8 sea | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sea | det |
| 6 | distant | distant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 sea | amod |
| 7 | salt | salt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sea | compound |
| 8 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 star | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gleam | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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