Exam question 4 · Picture-Book without Pictures, The Moon's Tales, part 114:…

Identify the location in which the Moon describes the silent city of the dead.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Moon · What happens: identify, describe · To what, where: location, silent city

This is exam question 4 of lesson 903 «Picture-Book without Pictures, The Moon's Tales, part 114: Greenland, the old maid's coffin, Pompeii» 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 location	det
3	location	location	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 describes	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Moon	det
7	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 describes	nsubj
8	describes	describe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Identify	parataxis
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 city	det
10	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 city	amod
11	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 describes	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 dead	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 dead	det
14	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 city	nmod
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the location					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent location=Theme
2	describe	present	the Moon	the silent city of the dead					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent city=Theme

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

Vesuvius, on the slopes above the buried city of Pompeii and its tombs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Vesuvius	Vesuvius	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 slopes	punct
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 slopes	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 slopes	det
5	slopes	slope	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Vesuvius	appos
6	above	above	ADP	_	9 city	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 city	det
8	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 city	amod
9	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 slopes	nmod
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 Pompeii	case
11	Pompeii	Pompeii	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 city	nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 tombs	cc
13	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 tombs	nmod:poss
14	tombs	tomb	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Vesuvius	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bury	participle							vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Pompeii, in the Street of Tombs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pompeii	Pompeii	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Street	punct
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 Street	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Street	det
5	Street	Street	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Pompeii	conj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 Tombs	case
7	Tombs	tomb	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 Street	nmod

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

Option 3

Pompeii, in the Street of Tombs beside the old city gate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pompeii	Pompeii	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Street	punct
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 Street	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Street	det
5	Street	Street	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Pompeii	conj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 Tombs	case
7	Tombs	tomb	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 Street	nmod
8	beside	beside	ADP	_	12 gate	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 gate	det
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 gate	amod
11	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 gate	compound
12	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Tombs	nmod

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

Option 4

Greenland, on the frozen coast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Greenland	Greenland	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Greenland	punct
3	on	on	ADP	_	6 coast	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 coast	det
5	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 coast	amod
6	coast	coast	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Greenland	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	freeze	participle							vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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