Exam question 3 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Garden of Paradise, part 2: th…

Which sacred narrative was depicted upon the window-pane observed by the prince?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: depict, observe · To what, where: sacred narrative, window pane

This is exam question 3 of lesson 935 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Garden of Paradise, part 2: the prince enters the garden of paradise» 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	5 depicted	obj
2	sacred	sacred	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 narrative	amod
3	narrative	narrative	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 depicted	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 depicted	aux:pass
5	depicted	depict	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	upon	upon	ADP	_	10 pane	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 pane	det
8	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pane	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 window	punct
10	pane	pane	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 depicted	obl
11	observed	observe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 pane	acl
12	by	by	ADP	_	14 prince	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 prince	det
14	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 observed	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 depicted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	depict	past · passive		sacred narrative				upon the window pane	tree rules
2	observe	participle		the window pane not said here				by the prince	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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

the story of Noah and the ark

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 story	det
2	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Noah	case
4	Noah	Noah	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 story	nmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 ark	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ark	det
7	ark	ark	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Noah	conj

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

the history of Adam and Eve

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 history	det
2	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Adam	case
4	Adam	Adam	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 history	nmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 Eve	cc
6	Eve	Eve	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Adam	conj

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

Option 3

the legend of Moses by the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 legend	det
2	legend	legend	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Moses	case
4	Moses	Moses	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 legend	nmod
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 sea	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sea	det
7	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 legend	nmod

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

Option 4

Adam and Eve

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Adam	Adam	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 Eve	cc
3	Eve	Eve	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Adam	conj

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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