Exam question 1 · Andersen's Tales, What the Moon Saw, part 118: the Moon sh…

Which figure does the Moon describe as standing upon the wall of a house in Tyrol?

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

This is exam question 1 of lesson 907 «Andersen's Tales, What the Moon Saw, part 118: the Moon shows a guilty girl, a boy at a spinning wheel, a mother's belief, and a chimney sweep's first sunrise» 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 figure	det
2	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 does	nsubj
3	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Moon	det
5	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 describe	nsubj
6	describe	describe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 does	ccomp
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 standing	mark
8	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 describe	advcl
9	upon	upon	ADP	_	11 wall	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 wall	det
11	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 standing	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 house	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 house	det
14	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 wall	nmod
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 Tyrol	case
16	Tyrol	Tyrol	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 house	nmod
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 does	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	do	present	which figure		tree rules
2	describe	present	the Moon		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
3	stand	gerund	the Moon not said here	the wall of a house in Tyrol	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon wall=Location

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

St. Peter holding the keys of heaven

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	St.	St.	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Peter	nmod:desc
2	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 holding	nsubj
3	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 keys	det
5	keys	key	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 holding	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 heaven	case
7	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 keys	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	gerund	Peter St.	the keys of heaven					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent key=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

the Infant Jesus alone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Jesus	det
2	Infant	infant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Jesus	amod
3	Jesus	Jesus	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	alone	alone	ADV	_	3 Jesus	advmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

St. Christopher carrying the Infant Jesus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	St.	St.	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Christopher	nmod:desc
2	Christopher	Christopher	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 carrying	nsubj
3	carrying	carry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Jesus	det
5	Infant	infant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Jesus	amod
6	Jesus	Jesus	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 carrying	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	gerund	Christopher St.	the Infant Jesus					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jesus=Theme

Option 4

St. George on a white horse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	St.	St.	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 George	nmod:desc
2	George	George	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	6 horse	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 horse	det
5	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 horse	amod
6	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 George	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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