Exam question 1 · Reading poems: meaning, sound and pictures

Identify the device employed in the line «I wandered lonely as a cloud».

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, I · What happens: identify, employ, wander · To what, where: device, line · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 1 of lesson 25 «Reading poems: meaning, sound and pictures» of the English 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 device	det
3	device	device	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	employed	employ	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 device	acl
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 line	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 line	det
7	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 employed	obl
8	«	«	PUNCT	_	10 wandered	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 wandered	nsubj
10	wandered	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Identify	parataxis
11	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 wandered	xcomp
12	as	as	ADP	_	14 cloud	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 cloud	det
14	cloud	cloud	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 wandered	obl
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 wandered	punct
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the device			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent device=Theme clause=Attribute
2	employ	participle		the device not said here	the line		vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	wander in a quote	past	I			as a cloud; lonely property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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

Headline

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Headline	headline	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Onomatopoeia

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Onomatopoeia	onomatopoeia	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Simile

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Simile	simile	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Rhetorical question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rhetorical	rhetorical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 question	amod
2	question	question	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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