Exam question 4 · Andersen tales, Ole the Tower-Keeper, part 141: Ole explai…

Which phrase best describes the day on which the streets are cluttered with discarded refuse?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: phrase · What happens: describe, clutter, discard · To what, where: streets

This is exam question 4 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 phrase	det
2	phrase	phrase	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 describes	nsubj
3	best	well	ADV	Degree=Sup	2 phrase	advmod
4	describes	describe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 day	det
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 describes	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 which	case
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 cluttered	obl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 streets	det
10	streets	street	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 cluttered	nsubj:pass
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 cluttered	aux:pass
12	cluttered	clutter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 day	acl:relcl
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 refuse	case
14	discarded	discard	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 refuse	amod
15	refuse	refuse	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cluttered	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 describes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	describe	present	which phrase		day		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
2	clutter	present · passive		the streets	on the day	with discarded refuse	vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with refuse=Theme
3	discard	participle					vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP»: 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 · ← Mova's choice

Sweeping day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sweeping	sweeping	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 day	amod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Trash day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Trash	trash	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 day	compound
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Moving-day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Moving	move	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 day	punct
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Moving	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move	gerund					day		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Cleaning-day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cleaning	cleaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 day	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Cleaning	punct
3	day	day	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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