Exam question 1 · Household Tales, The Heart in the Bird, part 36: the youth…
Which of the following is stated in the text to be the location of the old man's heart?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: follow, state, be · To what, where: text, location
This is exam question 1 of lesson 1647 «Household Tales, The Heart in the Bird, part 36: the youth reaches the moat round the church» 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 | 6 stated | obj |
| 2 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 6 stated | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 following | det |
| 4 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 stated | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 stated | aux:pass |
| 6 | stated | state | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 text | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 text | det |
| 9 | text | text | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stated | obl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 location | mark |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 location | cop |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 location | det |
| 13 | location | location | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stated | advcl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 heart | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 man | det |
| 16 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 man | amod |
| 17 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 heart | nmod:poss |
| 18 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 17 man | case |
| 19 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 location | nmod |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 stated | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | state speech: other | present · passive | the text | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is a | to-infinitive | the location | of the old man's heart | tree rules |
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
in a church
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 church | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 church | det |
| 3 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
inside a grey stone at the end of the wood
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 4 stone | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 stone | det |
| 3 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 stone | amod |
| 4 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 end | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 end | det |
| 7 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stone | nmod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 wood | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 wood | det |
| 10 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 end | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
within a bird inside a great church beyond a moat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | within | within | ADP | _ | 3 bird | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 bird | det |
| 3 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 7 church | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 church | det |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 church | amod |
| 7 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bird | nmod |
| 8 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 10 moat | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 moat | det |
| 10 | moat | moat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 church | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
within a bird in the old oak by a wide river
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | within | within | ADP | _ | 3 bird | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 bird | det |
| 3 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 oak | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 oak | det |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 oak | amod |
| 7 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bird | nmod |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 river | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 river | det |
| 10 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 river | amod |
| 11 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 oak | 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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