Exam question 3 · Andersen tales, Ole the Tower-Keeper, part 141: Ole explai…

Which object is described as pointing its little finger at the fir tree in the dust-cart?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: describe, point · To what, where: object, little finger, fir tree

This is exam question 3 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	DET	PronType=Int	2 object	det
2	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 described	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 described	aux:pass
4	described	describe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 pointing	mark
6	pointing	point	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 described	advcl
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 finger	nmod:poss
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 finger	amod
9	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pointing	obj
10	at	at	ADP	_	13 tree	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 tree	det
12	fir	fir	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 tree	compound
13	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pointing	obl
14	in	in	ADP	_	18 cart	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 cart	det
16	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 cart	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 dust	punct
18	cart	cart	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pointing	obl
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 described	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	describe	present · passive		which object					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme
2	point	gerund		object's little finger		the fir tree		in the dust cart	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent finger=Patient in cart=Theme

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 ribbon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

The hat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The glove

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

The sock

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sock	det
2	sock	sock	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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