Exam question 3 · Andersen's Tales, The Dryad, part 26: the oak is struck by…
In the passage, to what is the Champ de Mars compared when it is described as a table laid for a festival?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Champ Mars · What happens: be, compare, describe, lay · To what, where: passage, Mars, table
This is exam question 3 of lesson 815 «Andersen's Tales, The Dryad, part 26: the oak is struck by lightning, and the Dryad hears of the Paris Exhibition and its doom» 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 passage | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 passage | det |
| 3 | passage | passage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 what | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 passage | punct |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 what | case |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 what | cop |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Mars | det |
| 9 | Champ | Champ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Mars | compound |
| 10 | de | de | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Champ | flat |
| 11 | Mars | Mars | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 compared | nsubj |
| 12 | compared | compare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 what | acl:relcl |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 described | advmod |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 described | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 described | aux:pass |
| 16 | described | describe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 compared | ccomp |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 table | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 table | det |
| 19 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 described | obl |
| 20 | laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 table | acl |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 festival | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 festival | det |
| 23 | festival | festival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 laid | obl |
| 24 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 what | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the passage | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | compare | past | the Champ Mars | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | describe | present · passive | Mars | as a table | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme as table=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | lay | participle | a table not said here | for a festival | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for festival=Beneficiary |
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 banquet on a summer night
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 banquet | det |
| 2 | banquet | banquet | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 night | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 night | det |
| 5 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 night | compound |
| 6 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 banquet | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
A great table on Christmas Eve
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 table | det |
| 2 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 table | amod |
| 3 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 Eve | case |
| 5 | Christmas | Christmas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Eve | compound |
| 6 | Eve | Eve | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 table | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A grand dinner for the king
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 dinner | det |
| 2 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 dinner | amod |
| 3 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 king | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dinner | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
A table
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 table | det |
| 2 | table | table | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/815-pg27200-part26/e3/