Exam question 1 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Goloshes of Fortune, part 50:…
Which location is the watchman's soul transported to during its journey?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: location, soul · What happens: be, transport, journey · To what, where: soul
This is exam question 1 of lesson 839 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Goloshes of Fortune, part 50: the watchman's soul visits the moon, then a volunteer's head sticks in the hospital railings» 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 location | det |
| 2 | location | location | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 soul | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 soul | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 watchman | det |
| 5 | watchman | watchman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 soul | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 watchman | case |
| 7 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 transported | nsubj |
| 8 | transported | transport | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 transported | xcomp |
| 10 | during | during | ADP | _ | 12 journey | case |
| 11 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 journey | nmod:poss |
| 12 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 transported | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 transported | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | which location | the watchman's soul | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | transport | past | the watchman's soul | during soul's journey | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | journey | soul | nom journey «act transitive»: 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
A broad plain of dark glass rock
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 plain | det |
| 2 | broad | broad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 plain | amod |
| 3 | plain | plain | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 rock | case |
| 5 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 rock | amod |
| 6 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rock | compound |
| 7 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 plain | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A ring of hills near the sea
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 ring | det |
| 2 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 hills | case |
| 4 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 ring | nmod |
| 5 | near | near | ADP | _ | 7 sea | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sea | det |
| 7 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hills | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The dark side
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 side | det |
| 2 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 side | amod |
| 3 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
A circular range of lunar mountains
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 range | det |
| 2 | circular | circular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 range | amod |
| 3 | range | range | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 mountains | case |
| 5 | lunar | lunar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 mountains | amod |
| 6 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 range | 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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