Exam question 4 · Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 16: Gerda in the old wom…

Which species of plant is designated by the term "Ranunculus" as employed in this passage?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: term · What happens: designate, employ · To what, where: species, passage

This is exam question 4 of lesson 289 «Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 16: Gerda in the old woman's garden asks the flowers about Kay» 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 species	det
2	species	species	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 designated	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 plant	case
4	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 species	nmod
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 designated	aux:pass
6	designated	designate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 term	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 term	det
9	term	term	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 designated	obl
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 Ranunculus	punct
11	Ranunculus	Ranunculus	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 term	appos
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 Ranunculus	punct
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 employed	mark
14	employed	employ	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 designated	advcl
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 passage	case
16	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 passage	det
17	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 employed	obl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 designated	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	designate	present · passive	the term	which species of plant					vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
2	employ	participle	the term not said here			this passage			vn hire-13.5.3 «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

A lily

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 lily	det
2	lily	lily	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

A rose

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 rose	det
2	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The buttercup

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 buttercup	det
2	buttercup	buttercup	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

The daisy plant

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 plant	det
2	daisy	daisy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 plant	amod
3	plant	plant	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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