Exam question 1 · Fairy Tales and Stories, The Ice Maiden, part 65: Rudy cro…

In the passage, by what name is the violent storm-wind described?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: name · What happens: be, describe · To what, where: violent storm wind, passage

This is exam question 1 of lesson 854 «Fairy Tales and Stories, The Ice Maiden, part 65: Rudy crosses the mountains and reaches his uncle's house» 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	14 described	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 passage	punct
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 what	case
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 wind	obl
7	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 wind	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 wind	cop
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 wind	det
10	violent	violent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 wind	amod
11	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 wind	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 storm	punct
13	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 described	nsubj:pass
14	described	describe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 described	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	name	the violent storm wind					tree rules
2	describe	participle · passive		the violent storm wind		the passage			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme

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

gust

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	gust	gust	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

the cold north wind of the high passes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wind	det
2	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 wind	amod
3	north	north	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 wind	amod
4	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 passes	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 passes	det
7	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 passes	amod
8	passes	pass	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 wind	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wind			the high passes					nom wind «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient

Option 3

the storm-wind that blows down from the Alps every winter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wind	det
2	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wind	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 storm	punct
4	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 blows	nsubj
6	blows	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 wind	acl:relcl
7	down	down	ADP	_	6 blows	compound:prt
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 Alps	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Alps	det
10	Alps	Alp	PROPN	Number=Plur	6 blows	obl
11	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	12 winter	det
12	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 blows	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow down	present	the storm wind				winter	from the Alps	vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from alp=Co-Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

the fohn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fohn	det
2	fohn	fohn	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.

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