Exam question 3 · Andersen's Tales, The Moon, part 113: the Moon watches a g…

Which practice of the Uppsala visitors is described in the narrative?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · What happens: describe, practice · To what, where: practice, narrative, Uppsala visitors

This is exam question 3 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 practice	det
2	practice	practice	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 described	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 visitors	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 visitors	det
5	Uppsala	Uppsala	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 visitors	compound
6	visitors	visitor	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 practice	nmod
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 described	aux:pass
8	described	describe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 narrative	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 narrative	det
11	narrative	narrative	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 described	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 described	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	describe	present · passive		which practice of the Uppsala visitors		the narrative			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme
2	practice			the Uppsala visitors					nom practice «act transitive»: of=patient

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

Removing turf to expose names that had been inscribed long ago

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Removing	remove	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	turf	turf	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Removing	obj
3	to	to	PART	_	4 expose	mark
4	expose	expose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Removing	advcl
5	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 expose	obj
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 inscribed	obj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 inscribed	aux
8	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 inscribed	aux:pass
9	inscribed	inscribe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 names	acl:relcl
10	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 ago	advmod
11	ago	ago	ADV	_	4 expose	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	remove	gerund	turf		vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent turf=Theme
2	expose	to-infinitive	names	ago property	vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot name=Topic
3	inscribe	past · perfect · passive	names		vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: that=Destination

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Removing turf to expose inscribed names

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Removing	remove	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	turf	turf	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Removing	obj
3	to	to	PART	_	4 expose	mark
4	expose	expose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Removing	advcl
5	inscribed	inscribe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 names	amod
6	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 expose	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	roles by
1	remove	gerund	turf	vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent turf=Theme
2	expose	to-infinitive	inscribed names	vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot name=Topic
3	inscribe	participle		vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Cutting bark from trees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cutting	cut	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	bark	bark	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Cutting	obj
3	from	from	ADP	_	4 trees	case
4	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Cutting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	gerund		bark		trees			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset bark=Product from tree=Material

Option 4

Digging for buried coins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Digging	dig	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	4 coins	case
3	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 coins	amod
4	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Digging	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dig	gerund						for buried coins	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for coin=Theme
2	bury	participle							vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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