Exam question 4 · Andersen's Tales, The Old Oak Tree's Last Dream: a Christm…
Specify the object that was shining over the sleeping infant in the subsequent narrative.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, object · What happens: specify, shine · To what, where: object, sleeping
This is exam question 4 of lesson 867 «Andersen's Tales, The Old Oak Tree's Last Dream: a Christmas storm uproots the oak as he dreams of summer and of all the small plants rising up with him» 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 | Specify | specify | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 object | det |
| 3 | object | object | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Specify | obj |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 shining | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 shining | aux |
| 6 | shining | shine | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 object | acl:relcl |
| 7 | over | over | ADP | _ | 9 sleeping | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sleeping | det |
| 9 | sleeping | sleeping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 shining | obl |
| 10 | infant | infant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 shining | xcomp |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 narrative | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 narrative | det |
| 13 | subsequent | subsequent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 narrative | amod |
| 14 | narrative | narrative | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 infant | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Specify | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | specify | imperative | you not said here | the object | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent object=Theme | ||||
| 2 | shine | past · progressive | the object | the sleeping | infant property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over sleeping=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
Moonlight
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Moonlight | moonlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
A net of shining stars
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 net | det |
| 2 | net | net | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 4 shining | mark |
| 4 | shining | shine | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 net | acl |
| 5 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 shining | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shine | gerund | a net not said here | stars | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent star=Theme |
Option 3
A star
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 star | det |
| 2 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A cloud of golden dust
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 cloud | det |
| 2 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 dust | case |
| 4 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 dust | amod |
| 5 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 cloud | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cloud | golden dust | nom cloud «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
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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