Exam question 3 · A Poet's Bazaar, The Dryad, part 29: the Rat mourns the ol…
On which edifice did the beacon that drew the Dryad's attention reside?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: beacon, Dryad · What happens: do, draw, reside, attend · To what, where: beacon, edifice, attention
This is exam question 3 of lesson 818 «A Poet's Bazaar, The Dryad, part 29: the Rat mourns the old days, the Dryad dances at Mabille and flies to the red tower, and the fishes gossip» 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 edifice | case |
| 2 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 3 edifice | det |
| 3 | edifice | edifice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obl |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 beacon | det |
| 6 | beacon | beacon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obj |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 drew | nsubj |
| 8 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 beacon | acl:relcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Dryad | det |
| 10 | Dryad | Dryad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 attention | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 Dryad | case |
| 12 | attention | attention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 drew | obj |
| 13 | reside | reside | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 drew | conj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the beacon | which edifice | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beacon=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | draw | past | the beacon | the Dryad's attention | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Theme | ||||
| 3 | reside | infinitive | the beacon not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | attend | the Dryad | nom attention «cognition intransitive»: poss=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 tall tower of the old church
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 tower | det |
| 2 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 tower | amod |
| 3 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 church | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 church | det |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 church | amod |
| 7 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tower | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
the red tower
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 tower | det |
| 2 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 tower | amod |
| 3 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
the high bell tower by the river
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 tower | det |
| 2 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 tower | amod |
| 3 | bell | bell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tower | compound |
| 4 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 river | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 river | det |
| 7 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tower | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
the red tower of the Champ de Mars
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 tower | det |
| 2 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 tower | amod |
| 3 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Mars | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Mars | det |
| 6 | Champ | Champ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Mars | compound |
| 7 | de | de | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Champ | flat |
| 8 | Mars | Mars | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 tower | 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.
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