Exam question 3 · Andersen's Tales, What the Moon Saw, part 117: the Moon sh…

Which object did the Roman child lose upon the marble steps?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: object · What happens: lose

This is exam question 3 of lesson 906 «Andersen's Tales, What the Moon Saw, part 117: the Moon shows a dead actor, a broken pitcher, a desert caravan and a doll in a tree» 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 object	det
2	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lose	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 lose	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 child	det
5	Roman	roman	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 child	amod
6	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lose	nsubj
7	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	upon	upon	ADP	_	11 steps	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 steps	det
10	marble	marble	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 steps	compound
11	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 lose	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 lose	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past · do-support	which object					upon the marble steps	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice

A doll

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 doll	det
2	doll	doll	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

A golden crescent

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 crescent	det
2	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 crescent	amod
3	crescent	crescent	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

A wooden bowl

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 bowl	det
2	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bowl	amod
3	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

An earthen pitcher

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 pitcher	det
2	earthen	earthen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 pitcher	amod
3	pitcher	pitcher	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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