Exam question 4 · Andersen's Tales, The Dryad, part 26: the oak is struck by…

Which term is used in the passage to denote the name given to the machinery in the great circular hall?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: use, denote, give · To what, where: term, passage, name, machinery, great circular hall

This is exam question 4 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 term	det
2	term	term	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 used	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 used	aux:pass
4	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 passage	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 passage	det
7	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 used	obl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 denote	mark
9	denote	denote	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 used	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 name	det
11	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 denote	obj
12	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 name	acl
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 machinery	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 machinery	det
15	machinery	machinery	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 given	obl
16	in	in	ADP	_	20 hall	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 hall	det
18	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 hall	amod
19	circular	circular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 hall	amod
20	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 given	obl
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 used	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	use	present · passive	which term		the passage	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	denote	to-infinitive	the name			vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot name=Topic
3	give	participle	the name not said here	the machinery	the great circular hall	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to machinery=Recipient

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

Master Bloodless

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Bloodless	Bloodless	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Master	appos

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

Option 2

The Brass Giant

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Brass	det
2	Brass	brass	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Giant	obl:unmarked
3	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3

Mister Iron Heart

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mister	Mister	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Iron	Iron	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Mister	flat
3	Heart	Heart	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Mister	flat

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

The Iron Man

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Man	det
2	Iron	Iron	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Man	compound
3	Man	Man	PROPN	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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