Exam question 2 · Andersen's Tales, The Old Church Bell: a cracked bell is s…

In which region was the bell melted down for the monument?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · What happens: be, melt down · To what, where: bell, region

This is exam question 2 of lesson 919 «Andersen's Tales, The Old Church Bell: a cracked bell is sold, melted, and cast into a statue of a poet» 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 region	case
2	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	3 region	det
3	region	region	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bell	obl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 bell	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bell	det
6	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	melted	melt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 bell	acl
8	down	down	ADP	_	7 melted	compound:prt
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 monument	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 monument	det
11	monument	monument	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 melted	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 bell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the bell		which region			tree rules
2	melt down	participle		the bell not said here				for the monument	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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

Bern

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

Ulm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ulm	Ulm	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Prussia

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Bavaria

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bavaria	Bavaria	PROPN	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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