Exam question 2 · Andersen's Tales, The Moon, part 113: the Moon watches a g…

Which figure in the passage is described as responding to the seashore scenery with genuine feeling?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · What happens: describe, respond · To what, where: figure

This is exam question 2 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 figure	det
2	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 described	nsubj:pass
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 passage	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 passage	det
5	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 figure	nmod
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 described	aux:pass
7	described	describe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 responding	mark
9	responding	respond	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 described	advcl
10	to	to	ADP	_	13 scenery	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 scenery	det
12	seashore	seashore	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 scenery	amod
13	scenery	scenery	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 responding	obl
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 feeling	case
15	genuine	genuine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 feeling	amod
16	feeling	feeling	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 responding	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 described	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	describe	present · passive		which figure in the passage					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme
2	respond speech: other	gerund						to the seashore scenery; with genuine feeling	vn respond-113 «NP V PP.theme PP.predicate»: agent=Agent to scenery=Theme with feeling=Eventuality

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

The painter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 painter	det
2	painter	painter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

The young nobleman at the shore

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

The miller's Christine on the path

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 miller	det
2	miller	miller	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Christine	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 miller	case
4	Christine	Christine	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 path	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 path	det
7	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Christine	nmod

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The poor girl seated upon the Hun's Grave

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 girl	det
2	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 girl	amod
3	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	seated	seat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 girl	acl
5	upon	upon	ADP	_	9 Grave	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Hun	det
7	Hun	Hun	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Grave	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 Hun	case
9	Grave	Grave	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 seated	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seat	participle		the poor girl not said here				upon the Hun's Grave	vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location

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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