Exam question 4 · Andersen's Tales, The Last Dream of the Old Oak, part 1: t…

Identify the season in which the oak remains dormant and its foliage is absent.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, oak, foliage · What happens: identify, remain, be

This is exam question 4 of lesson 866 «Andersen's Tales, The Last Dream of the Old Oak, part 1: the jumping contest ends, and the old oak gets ready for winter sleep» 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 season	det
3	season	season	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 remains	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 oak	det
7	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 remains	nsubj
8	remains	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 season	acl:relcl
9	dormant	dormant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 remains	xcomp
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 absent	cc
11	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 foliage	nmod:poss
12	foliage	foliage	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 absent	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 absent	cop
14	absent	absent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 dormant	conj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	season		vn empathize-88.2 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	remain	present	the oak	in the season	dormant property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=Location
3	is	present	oak's foliage		absent property	tree rules

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

fall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fall	fall	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	imperative	you not said here						vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

the frosty time after autumn ends

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 time	det
2	frosty	frosty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 time	amod
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	after	after	ADP	_	6 ends	case
5	autumn	autumn	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ends	compound
6	ends	end	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 time	nmod

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

Option 3

dusk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

winter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	winter	winter	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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