Exam question 3 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Goloshes of Fortune, part 53:…

Which lake is described as glittering in the evening sunlight like a sheet of molten gold?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: describe, glitter · To what, where: lake, evening sunlight

This is exam question 3 of lesson 842 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Goloshes of Fortune, part 53: the clerk wakes at his table; the student's goloshes carry him to Italy» 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 lake	det
2	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 described	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 described	aux:pass
4	described	describe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 glittering	mark
6	glittering	glitter	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 described	advcl
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 sunlight	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sunlight	det
9	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sunlight	compound
10	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 glittering	obl
11	like	like	ADP	_	13 sheet	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 sheet	det
13	sheet	sheet	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 glittering	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 gold	case
15	molten	molten	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 gold	amod
16	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sheet	nmod
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 described	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	describe	present · passive		which lake					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme
2	glitter	gerund				the evening sunlight		like a sheet of molten gold	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sunlight=Location

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

lake Como

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Como	Como	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 lake	flat

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

Option 2

lake Bolsena

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Bolsena	Bolsena	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 lake	flat

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

Option 3

lake Maggiore

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Maggiore	Maggiore	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 lake	flat

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

lake Thrasymene

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Thrasymene	Thrasymene	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 lake	flat

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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