Exam question 2 · Old Africa, Makoma, part 2: Makoma beats giants and the ri…
Identify the precise location in which the flame-spirit was discovered by the hero.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, hero · What happens: identify, discover · To what, where: precise location, flame spirit
This is exam question 2 of lesson 1136 «Old Africa, Makoma, part 2: Makoma beats giants and the river spirit, then is sent to find Sakatirina» 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 | Identify | identify | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 location | det |
| 3 | precise | precise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 location | amod |
| 4 | location | location | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Identify | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 which | case |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 discovered | obl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 spirit | det |
| 8 | flame | flame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 spirit | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 flame | punct |
| 10 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 discovered | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 discovered | aux:pass |
| 12 | discovered | discover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 location | acl:relcl |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 hero | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 hero | det |
| 15 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 discovered | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Identify | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | identify | imperative | you not said here | the precise location | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent location=Theme | ||||
| 2 | discover | past · passive | the hero | the flame spirit | the precise location | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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
a barren and rocky region past the great river valley
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 region | det |
| 2 | barren | barren | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 region | amod |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 rocky | cc |
| 4 | rocky | rocky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 barren | conj |
| 5 | region | region | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | past | past | ADP | _ | 10 valley | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 valley | det |
| 8 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 valley | amod |
| 9 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 valley | compound |
| 10 | valley | valley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 region | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
a barren and rocky region beyond the forest
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 region | det |
| 2 | barren | barren | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 region | amod |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 rocky | cc |
| 4 | rocky | rocky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 barren | conj |
| 5 | region | region | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 8 forest | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 forest | det |
| 8 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 region | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
a barren and rocky region
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 region | det |
| 2 | barren | barren | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 region | amod |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 rocky | cc |
| 4 | rocky | rocky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 barren | conj |
| 5 | region | region | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
a green and sandy coast
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 coast | det |
| 2 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 coast | amod |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 sandy | cc |
| 4 | sandy | sandy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 green | conj |
| 5 | coast | coast | 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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