Exam question 4 · Picture-Book Without Pictures, Pulcinella, part 2: the clo…

In which setting did the Moon observe the little girl's delight in her new clothing?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Moon, little girl · What happens: do, observe, delight · To what, where: setting, delight, new clothing

This is exam question 4 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 setting	case
2	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	3 setting	det
3	setting	setting	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obl
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Moon	det
6	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 observe	nsubj
7	observe	observe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	ccomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 girl	det
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 girl	amod
10	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 delight	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 girl	case
12	delight	delight	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 observe	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	16 clothing	case
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 clothing	nmod:poss
15	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 clothing	amod
16	clothing	clothing	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 observe	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	do	past			which setting	tree rules
2	observe	present	the Moon	the little girl's delight	Moon's new clothing	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent delight=Topic
3	delight		the little girl			nom delight «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent

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 chapel full of candles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 chapel	det
2	chapel	chapel	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 chapel	amod
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 candles	case
5	candles	candle	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 full	obl

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

Option 2

her bedroom

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 bedroom	nmod:poss
2	bedroom	bedroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

a room lit by the Moon's rays

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 room	det
2	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	lit	lit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 room	acl
4	by	by	ADP	_	8 rays	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Moon	det
6	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 rays	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Moon	case
8	rays	ray	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lit	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lit	participle		a room not said here				by the Moon's rays	tree rules
2	ray		the Moon						nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

a garden under the stars

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 garden	det
2	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	under	under	ADP	_	5 stars	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 stars	det
5	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 garden	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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