Exam question 4 · Andersen's Tales, The Mail-Coach Passengers, part 97: a wi…
Which month is described as keeping its summer wardrobe in a box?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: describe, keep · To what, where: month, summer wardrobe, box
This is exam question 4 of lesson 886 «Andersen's Tales, The Mail-Coach Passengers, part 97: a wise man hunts the loveliest rose, then twelve months arrive at the town gate on New Year's Eve» 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 month | det |
| 2 | month | month | 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 keeping | mark |
| 6 | keeping | keep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 described | advcl |
| 7 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 wardrobe | nmod:poss |
| 8 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wardrobe | compound |
| 9 | wardrobe | wardrobe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 keeping | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 box | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 box | det |
| 12 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 keeping | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 described | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | describe | present · passive | which month | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | keep | gerund | its summer wardrobe | a box | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent wardrobe=Theme in box=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
June
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | June | June | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
August
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | August | August | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
April
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | April | April | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
the frivolous month of spring showers
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 month | det |
| 2 | frivolous | frivolous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 month | amod |
| 3 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 showers | case |
| 5 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 showers | compound |
| 6 | showers | shower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 month | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/886-pg27200-part97/e4/