Exam question 2 · Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 1…

Ascertain the geographical feature produced, according to the narrative, from the diggings of All-the-Elephant-there-was.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: ascertain, produce, accord · To what, where: geographical feature, diggings

This is exam question 2 of lesson 90 «Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 1: the Eldest Magician and the sea that will not behave» 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	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 feature	det
3	geographical	geographical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 feature	amod
4	feature	feature	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
5	produced	produce	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 feature	acl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 narrative	punct
7	according	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 narrative	case
8	to	to	ADP	_	7 according	fixed
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 narrative	det
10	narrative	narrative	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 produced	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 diggings	punct
12	from	from	ADP	_	14 diggings	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 diggings	det
14	diggings	digging	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Ascertain	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 All	case
16	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 diggings	nmod
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 Elephant	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Elephant	det
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 the	punct
20	Elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 was	nsubj
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 Elephant	punct
22	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	24 was	expl
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 there	punct
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 diggings	acl:relcl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the geographical feature	the diggings of All		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feature=Topic
2	produce	participle		the geographical feature not said here		accord the narrative	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	accord	gerund					vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent

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

The Everglades of Florida

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Everglades	det
2	Everglades	Everglade	PROPN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Florida	case
4	Florida	Florida	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Everglades	nmod

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

Option 2

The Himalayan Mountains, which the Sea later flooded with mud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Mountains	det
2	Himalayan	Himalayan	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Mountains	compound
3	Mountains	Mountain	PROPN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 flooded	punct
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 flooded	nsubj:pass
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Sea	det
7	Sea	Sea	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 flooded	nsubj:pass
8	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 flooded	advmod
9	flooded	flood	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 Mountains	acl
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 mud	case
11	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 flooded	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flood	participle · passive		the Himalayan Mountains				with mud; late property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with mud=Instrument

Option 3

A chain of islands like Borneo, Java and others, in the Sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 chain	det
2	chain	chain	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 islands	case
4	islands	island	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 chain	nmod
5	like	like	ADP	_	6 Borneo	case
6	Borneo	Borneo	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 islands	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Java	punct
8	Java	Java	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Borneo	appos
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 others	cc
10	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 Borneo	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 Sea	punct
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 Sea	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Sea	det
14	Sea	Sea	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 chain	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The Himalayan Mountains

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Mountains	det
2	Himalayan	Himalayan	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Mountains	compound
3	Mountains	Mountain	PROPN	Number=Plur	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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