Exam question 3 · Picture-Book Without Pictures, Pulcinella, part 2: the clo…

Which feature did the Moon attribute to the spectral city of Venice?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: feature · What happens: do · To what, where: Moon attribute

This is exam question 3 of lesson 905 «Picture-Book Without Pictures, Pulcinella, part 2: the clown mourns Columbine» 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 feature	det
2	feature	feature	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 attribute	det
5	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 attribute	compound
6	attribute	attribute	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	10 city	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 city	det
9	spectral	spectral	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 city	amod
10	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 Venice	case
12	Venice	Venice	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 city	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	which feature	the Moon attribute				to the spectral city of Venice	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attribute=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

a widow's veil of mist over the drowned palaces

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 widow	det
2	widow	widow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 veil	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 widow	case
4	veil	veil	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 mist	case
6	mist	mist	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 veil	nmod
7	over	over	ADP	_	10 palaces	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 palaces	det
9	drowned	drown	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 palaces	amod
10	palaces	palace	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 veil	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drown	participle							vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

a silver curtain of rain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 curtain	det
2	silver	silver	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 curtain	amod
3	curtain	curtain	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 rain	case
5	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 curtain	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

a widow's veil of mist

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 widow	det
2	widow	widow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 veil	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 widow	case
4	veil	veil	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 mist	case
6	mist	mist	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 veil	nmod

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

Option 4

the cold breath of the lagoon over a sleeping bride

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 breath	det
2	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 breath	amod
3	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 lagoon	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lagoon	det
6	lagoon	lagoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 breath	nmod
7	over	over	ADP	_	10 bride	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 bride	det
9	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 bride	amod
10	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 breath	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	gerund							vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: 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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