Exam question 1 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, part 30: the lost shad…

Which region did the learned man originally inhabit before visiting the hot lands?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: region, learned man · What happens: do, learn, inhabit, visit · To what, where: learned man, hot lands

This is exam question 1 of lesson 303 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, part 30: the lost shadow comes back as a rich, fine gentleman» 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 region	det
2	region	region	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 man	det
5	learned	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 man	amod
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
7	originally	originally	ADV	_	8 inhabit	advmod
8	inhabit	inhabit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 man	acl:relcl
9	before	before	SCONJ	_	10 visiting	mark
10	visiting	visit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 did	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 lands	det
12	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 lands	amod
13	lands	land	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 visiting	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past	which region	the learned man		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Eventuality
2	learn	participle				vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	inhabit	present	the learned man not said here		originally property	tree rules
4	visit	gerund	which region not said here	the hot lands		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Co-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 frozen north

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 north	det
2	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 north	amod
3	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

The snowy plains

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 plains	det
2	snowy	snowy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 plains	amod
3	plains	plain	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The cold lands

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 lands	det
2	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lands	amod
3	lands	land	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

The south

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 south	det
2	south	south	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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