Exam question 1 · Andersen's Tales, The Moon, part 113: the Moon watches a g…

Which place is identified in the passage as the site where the wounded youth was laid?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: identify, lay · To what, where: place, passage, wounded youth

This is exam question 1 of lesson 902 «Andersen's Tales, The Moon, part 113: the Moon watches a grandmother at the Louvre, a boy's death on the throne, and the people by the sea» 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 place	det
2	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 identified	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 identified	aux:pass
4	identified	identify	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 passage	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 passage	det
7	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 identified	obl
8	as	as	ADP	_	10 site	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 site	det
10	site	site	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 passage	nmod
11	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	16 laid	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 youth	det
13	wounded	wounded	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 youth	amod
14	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 laid	nsubj:pass
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 laid	aux:pass
16	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 site	acl:relcl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 identified	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	present · passive		which place		the passage as the site			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme
2	lay	past · passive		the wounded youth					vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result

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 grand hall of the palace

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 hall	det
2	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hall	amod
3	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 palace	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 palace	det
6	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hall	nmod

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

Option 2

The throne-room of the palace, beside the great staircase

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 room	det
2	throne	throne	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 room	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 throne	punct
4	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 palace	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 palace	det
7	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 room	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 staircase	punct
9	beside	beside	ADP	_	12 staircase	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 staircase	det
11	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 staircase	amod
12	staircase	staircase	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 room	conj

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

Option 3

The throne-room of the palace, where the king's guards stood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 room	det
2	throne	throne	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 room	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 throne	punct
4	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 stood	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 palace	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 palace	det
7	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 room	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 stood	punct
9	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	14 stood	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 king	det
11	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 guards	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 king	case
13	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 stood	nsubj
14	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past	the throne room of the palace						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The throne-room of the palace

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 room	det
2	throne	throne	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 room	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 throne	punct
4	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 palace	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 palace	det
7	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 room	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.

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