Exam question 4 · Andersen's Tales, The Moon: the Moon watches a prisoner le…
What is the principal purpose of the sparrows' discourse concerning the rose-bush?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: principal purpose, discourse, sparrows · What happens: be, concern, purpose, discourse · To what, where: rose bush
This is exam question 4 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 purpose | det |
| 4 | principal | principal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 purpose | amod |
| 5 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 discourse | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sparrows | det |
| 8 | sparrows | sparrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 discourse | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 8 sparrows | case |
| 10 | discourse | discourse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 purpose | nmod |
| 11 | concerning | concern | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 discourse | acl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 bush | det |
| 13 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bush | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 rose | punct |
| 15 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 concerning | obj |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the principal purpose of the sparrows's discourse | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | concern | gerund | the sparrows's discourse not said here | the rose bush | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus bush=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | purpose | the sparrows's discourse | nom purpose «cognition intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 4 | discourse | the sparrows | nom discourse «communication 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
to hide it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | to | to | PART | _ | 2 hide | mark |
| 2 | hide | hide | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 hide | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | to-infinitive | it | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
Option 2
to praise it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | to | to | PART | _ | 2 praise | mark |
| 2 | praise | praise | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 praise | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | praise | to-infinitive | it | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
to predict its removal
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | to | to | PART | _ | 2 predict | mark |
| 2 | predict | predict | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 removal | nmod:poss |
| 4 | removal | removal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 predict | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | predict | to-infinitive | its removal | vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot removal=Topic | |||||
| 2 | remove | its = it | nom removal «act transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 4
to describe its colour
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | to | to | PART | _ | 2 describe | mark |
| 2 | describe | describe | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 colour | nmod:poss |
| 4 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 describe | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | describe | to-infinitive | its colour | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent colour=Theme |
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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