Exam question 2 · Arabian Nights, Sindbad the Sailor, part 29: Sindbad float…

What feature of the island's climate is described in the text?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: island · What happens: describe, feature, acclimate · To what, where: feature, text, climate

This is exam question 2 of lesson 189 «Arabian Nights, Sindbad the Sailor, part 29: Sindbad floats out of a dark underground river and is welcomed in Serendib» 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	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	2 feature	det
2	feature	feature	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 described	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	7 climate	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 island	det
5	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 climate	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 island	case
7	climate	climate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 feature	nmod
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 described	aux:pass
9	described	describe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 text	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 text	det
12	text	text	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 described	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 described	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	describe	present · passive		what feature of the island's climate	the text	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme
2	feature			the island's climate		nom feature «cognition transitive»: of=patient
3	acclimate		the island			nom climate «state intransitive»: poss=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 · ← Mova's choice

The seasons change every month

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 seasons	det
2	seasons	season	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 change	nsubj
3	change	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 month	det
5	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 change	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	present	the seasons				month		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The days and nights are of equal length

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 days	det
2	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 length	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 nights	cc
4	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 days	conj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 length	cop
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 length	case
7	equal	equal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 length	amod
8	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the days and nights					of equal length	tree rules

Option 3

The rain falls in every season

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 rain	det
2	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 falls	nsubj
3	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 season	case
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 season	det
6	season	season	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 falls	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	present	the rain				season		vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

The days and nights are of equal length all year round because of its position

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 days	det
2	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 length	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 nights	cc
4	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 days	conj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 length	cop
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 length	case
7	equal	equal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 length	amod
8	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 year	det
10	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 length	nmod:unmarked
11	round	round	ADV	_	8 length	advmod
12	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	15 position	case
13	of	of	ADP	_	12 because	fixed
14	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 position	nmod:poss
15	position	position	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 length	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the days and nights				year	of equal length; because length's position; round property	tree rules

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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