Exam question 4 · Old Africa, Makoma, part 2: Makoma beats giants and the ri…

Indicate the substance of which the river giant's moustache was composed, according to the narrative.

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: indicate, compose, accord · To what, where: substance, moustache

This is exam question 4 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	Indicate	indicate	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 substance	det
3	substance	substance	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Indicate	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 composed	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 giant	det
7	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 giant	compound
8	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 moustache	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 giant	case
10	moustache	moustache	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 composed	nsubj:pass
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 composed	aux:pass
12	composed	compose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 substance	acl:relcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 narrative	punct
14	according	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 narrative	case
15	to	to	ADP	_	14 according	fixed
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 narrative	det
17	narrative	narrative	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 composed	conj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Indicate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	indicate	imperative	you not said here	the substance		vn indicate-78-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot substance=Topic
2	compose	past · passive		the river giant's moustache	of the substance	vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result
3	accord	gerund				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=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

grey fog

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 fog	amod
2	fog	fog	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

brown bog-moss

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 moss	amod
2	bog	bog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 moss	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 bog	punct
4	moss	moss	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

grey fever-mist

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 mist	amod
2	fever	fever	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mist	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 fever	punct
4	mist	mist	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

mist

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	mist	mist	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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