Exam question 3 · Rotundia Tales, Uncle James or The Purple Stranger, part 4…
Which geographical feature is described as having been driven through the round piece of earth?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · What happens: describe, drive · To what, where: round piece
This is exam question 3 of lesson 636 «Rotundia Tales, Uncle James or The Purple Stranger, part 4: the Dragon goes back into his picture, and the island that spun the wrong way gives Rotundia its wrong-sized animals» 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 | 5 described | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | geographical | geographical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 feature | amod |
| 3 | feature | feature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 described | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 described | aux:pass |
| 5 | described | describe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 driven | mark |
| 7 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 driven | aux |
| 8 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 driven | aux:pass |
| 9 | driven | drive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 described | advcl |
| 10 | through | through | ADP | _ | 13 piece | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 piece | det |
| 12 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 piece | amod |
| 13 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 driven | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 earth | case |
| 15 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 piece | nmod |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 described | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | describe | present · passive | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | drive | gerund · perfect · passive | the round piece of earth | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: through piece=Trajectory |
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
A broad flat stone
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 stone | det |
| 2 | broad | broad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 stone | amod |
| 3 | flat | flat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 stone | amod |
| 4 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A tall tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 tree | det |
| 2 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 tree | amod |
| 3 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A narrow stream of cold water
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 stream | det |
| 2 | narrow | narrow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 stream | amod |
| 3 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 water | case |
| 5 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 water | amod |
| 6 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stream | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
A long piece of hard rock
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 piece | det |
| 2 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 piece | amod |
| 3 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 rock | case |
| 5 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 rock | amod |
| 6 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 piece | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/636-pg23661-part4/e3/