Exam question 1 · The Magic City, The North Pole, part 13: George and Jane m…

With reference to the passage, state the substance of which the North Pole is said to be composed.

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: say, compose · To what, where: North Pole · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 1 of lesson 645 «The Magic City, The North Pole, part 13: George and Jane meet a frozen dragon and are tied up by sealskin dwarfs.» 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	With	with	ADP	_	2 reference	case
2	reference	reference	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 passage	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 passage	det
5	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reference	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 state	punct
7	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 passage	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 substance	det
9	substance	substance	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 passage	conj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 which	case
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 said	obl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Pole	det
13	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Pole	compound
14	Pole	Pole	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 said	nsubj:pass
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 said	aux:pass
16	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 substance	acl:relcl
17	to	to	PART	_	19 composed	mark
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 composed	aux:pass
19	composed	compose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 said	xcomp
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 reference	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present · passive		the North Pole				of the substance	tree rules
2	compose	to-infinitive · passive							vn create-26.4-1 «NP V»

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 · ✓ the right answer

clear ice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 ice	amod
2	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

snow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

frozen sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	frozen	frozen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sea	amod
2	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

hard stone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 stone	amod
2	stone	stone	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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