Exam question 3 · Andersen, The Moon's Tales, part 119: the Moon shows a tem…
Of what material are the idols recorded as being composed?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: material · What happens: be, record, compose · To what, where: idols
This is exam question 3 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 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 2 what | case |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 3 | material | material | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 idols | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 idols | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 idols | det |
| 6 | idols | idol | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 what | nsubj |
| 7 | recorded | record | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 idols | acl |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 composed | mark |
| 9 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 composed | aux:pass |
| 10 | composed | compose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 recorded | xcomp |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 what | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | material | the idols | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | record | participle | the idols not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | compose | gerund · passive | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V» |
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
ox
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ox | ox | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
oil
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
tin
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tin | tin | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
iron
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | iron | iron | 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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