Exam question 2 · Andersen, The Moon's Tales, part 119: the Moon shows a tem…

Which colour is designated as sacred within the Chinese temple described?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: designate, describe · To what, where: colour, Chinese temple

This is exam question 2 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 colour	det
2	colour	colour	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	_	6 sacred	case
6	sacred	sacred	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 designated	obl
7	within	within	ADP	_	10 temple	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 temple	det
9	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 temple	amod
10	temple	temple	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 designated	obl
11	described	describe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 temple	acl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 designated	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	designate	present · passive		which colour				as sacred; within the Chinese temple	vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme as sacred=Attribute
2	describe	participle		the Chinese temple not said here					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: 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

the golden hue of imperial silk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 hue	det
2	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hue	amod
3	hue	hue	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 silk	case
5	imperial	imperial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 silk	amod
6	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hue	nmod

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

Option 2

crimson

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	crimson	crimson	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

scarlet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	scarlet	scarlet	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

yellow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	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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