Exam question 1 · Andersen's Tales, The Moon: the Moon watches a prisoner le…

To which feature of the prisoner's cell did the Moon's rays gain access, according to the narrator?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: rays, Moon · What happens: do, gain, accord, feature, ray · To what, where: access, cell

This is exam question 1 of lesson 909 «Andersen's Tales, The Moon: the Moon watches a prisoner leave his cell, then a little girl says her prayers» 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	To	to	ADP	_	3 feature	case
2	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	3 feature	det
3	feature	feature	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 did	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	8 cell	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 prisoner	det
6	prisoner	prisoner	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cell	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 prisoner	case
8	cell	cell	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 feature	nmod
9	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Moon	det
11	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 rays	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 Moon	case
13	rays	ray	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 gain	nsubj
14	gain	gain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 did	parataxis
15	access	access	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 gain	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 narrator	punct
17	according	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 narrator	case
18	to	to	ADP	_	17 according	fixed
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 narrator	det
20	narrator	narrator	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 access	conj
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past			to which feature of the prisoner's cell	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	gain	present	the Moon's rays	access and the narrator		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent access=Theme
3	accord	gerund				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
4	feature			the prisoner's cell		nom feature «cognition transitive»: of=patient
5	ray		the Moon			nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: poss=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 heavy wooden door with its iron lock and small hatch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 door	det
2	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 door	amod
3	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 door	amod
4	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 lock	case
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 lock	nmod:poss
7	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lock	compound
8	lock	lock	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 door	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 hatch	cc
10	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 hatch	amod
11	hatch	hatch	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lock	conj

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

Option 2

the small barred opening high in the far corner of the cell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 corner	det
2	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 corner	amod
3	barred	bar	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 corner	amod
4	opening	open	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 corner	csubj
5	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 opening	xcomp
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 corner	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 corner	det
8	far	far	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 corner	amod
9	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 cell	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 cell	det
12	cell	cell	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 corner	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bar	participle							vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer
2	open	gerund						high property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

the stone ceiling

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 ceiling	det
2	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ceiling	compound
3	ceiling	ceiling	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

the grated window

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 window	det
2	grated	grate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 window	amod
3	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grate	participle							vn appeal-31.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

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