Exam question 1 · English Folk Tales, The Lost Moon: the Evil Things bury th…

Which object did the folk use to locate the buried Moon?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: object · What happens: use, locate, bury · To what, where: buried Moon

This is exam question 1 of lesson 251 «English Folk Tales, The Lost Moon: the Evil Things bury the Moon in the bog, and the marsh folk find her again» 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	DET	PronType=Int	2 object	det
2	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 use	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 use	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 folk	det
5	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 use	nsubj
6	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 locate	mark
8	locate	locate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 use	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Moon	det
10	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 Moon	amod
11	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 locate	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 use	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	use	past · do-support	which object		vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	locate	to-infinitive	which object not said here	the buried Moon	tree rules
3	bury	participle			vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: 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 · ← Mova's choice

the coffin, the candle, the cross and a bundle of dried straws

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 coffin	det
2	coffin	coffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 candle	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 candle	det
5	candle	candle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 coffin	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 cross	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cross	det
8	cross	cross	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 coffin	conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 bundle	cc
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 bundle	det
11	bundle	bundle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 coffin	conj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 straws	case
13	dried	dry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 straws	amod
14	straws	straw	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 bundle	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dry	participle							vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

the coffin, the lamp and the stone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 coffin	det
2	coffin	coffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 lamp	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 lamp	det
5	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 coffin	conj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 stone	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 stone	det
8	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 coffin	conj

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

the coffin, the candle and the cross

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 coffin	det
2	coffin	coffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 candle	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 candle	det
5	candle	candle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 coffin	conj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 cross	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cross	det
8	cross	cross	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 coffin	conj

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

Option 4

the coffin, the candle, the cross and the old brewpot from the mill

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 coffin	det
2	coffin	coffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 candle	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 candle	det
5	candle	candle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 coffin	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 cross	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cross	det
8	cross	cross	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 coffin	conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 brewpot	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 brewpot	det
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 brewpot	amod
12	brewpot	brewpot	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cross	conj
13	from	from	ADP	_	15 mill	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 mill	det
15	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 brewpot	nmod

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

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