Exam question 1 · Andersen, The Moon's Tales, part 119: the Moon shows a tem…
Which entity is designated as the narrator of the present excerpt?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: designate · To what, where: entity
This is exam question 1 of lesson 908 «Andersen, The Moon's Tales, part 119: the Moon shows a temple, a swan and a dancing bear» 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 entity | det |
| 2 | entity | entity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 designated | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 designated | aux:pass |
| 4 | designated | designate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 narrator | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 narrator | det |
| 7 | narrator | narrator | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 designated | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 excerpt | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 excerpt | det |
| 10 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 excerpt | amod |
| 11 | excerpt | excerpt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 narrator | nmod |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 designated | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | designate | present · passive | which entity | as the narrator of the present excerpt | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme as narrator=Attribute |
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 · ✓ the right answer
The Moon
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Moon | det |
| 2 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Sun
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The narrator
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 narrator | det |
| 2 | narrator | narrator | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Earth
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | 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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