Exam question 4 · Andersen, The Moon's Tales, part 119: the Moon shows a tem…

Which animal is recorded as being tied outside the inn during the events described?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: record, tie, describe · To what, where: animal, events

This is exam question 4 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 animal	det
2	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 recorded	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 recorded	aux:pass
4	recorded	record	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 tied	mark
6	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 tied	aux:pass
7	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 recorded	xcomp
8	outside	outside	ADP	_	10 inn	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 inn	det
10	inn	inn	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tied	obl
11	during	during	ADP	_	13 events	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 events	det
13	events	event	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 tied	obl
14	described	describe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 events	acl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 recorded	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	record	present · passive	which animal			tree rules
2	tie	gerund · passive		during the events	outside the inn	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»
3	describe	participle	the events 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 right answer

the bear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bear	det
2	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

the goat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 goat	det
2	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

the ox

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 ox	det
2	ox	ox	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

a cow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cow	det
2	cow	cow	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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