Exam question 1 · Andersen tales, Ole the Tower-Keeper, part 141: Ole explai…
Which of the following is the glass in which the demon resides, as described by the tower-keeper Ole?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: demon · What happens: follow, be, reside, describe · To what, where: glass
This is exam question 1 of lesson 930 «Andersen tales, Ole the Tower-Keeper, part 141: Ole explains the six glasses, the tree in the dust-cart, and Death's omnibus» 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 | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 glass | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 glass | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 glass | det |
| 4 | following | follow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 glass | case |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 glass | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 glass | det |
| 7 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 which | case |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 resides | obl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 demon | det |
| 11 | demon | demon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 resides | nsubj |
| 12 | resides | reside | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 glass | parataxis |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 described | punct |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 described | mark |
| 15 | described | describe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 resides | parataxis |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 Ole | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Ole | det |
| 18 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 keeper | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 tower | punct |
| 20 | keeper | keeper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 Ole | compound |
| 21 | Ole | ole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 described | obl |
| 22 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 glass | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | is | present | of the glass | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | reside | present | the demon | the glass | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=Location | ||||
| 4 | describe | participle | by the keeper Ole | 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
The fifth
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 fifth | det |
| 2 | fifth | fifth | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
The sixth glass
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 glass | det |
| 2 | sixth | sixth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 glass | amod |
| 3 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Glass six
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 1 Glass | flat |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The second glass
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 glass | det |
| 2 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 glass | amod |
| 3 | glass | glass | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/930-pg27200-part141/e1/