Exam question 2 · Planning before writing
Which of the following most accurately characterises a story mountain?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: follow, characteris · To what, where: story mountain
This is exam question 2 of lesson 39 «Planning before writing» 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 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 characterises | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 7 characterises | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 characterises | det |
| 4 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 characterises | csubj |
| 5 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 6 accurately | advmod |
| 6 | accurately | accurately | ADV | _ | 7 characterises | advmod |
| 7 | characterises | characteris | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 mountain | det |
| 9 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 mountain | compound |
| 10 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 characterises | obj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 characterises | 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 | characteris | present | a story mountain | accurately property | tree rules |
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 right answer
Opening, build-up, problem, resolution and ending
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Opening | open | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 build | advcl |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Opening | punct |
| 3 | build | build | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 up | punct |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 build | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 problem | punct |
| 7 | problem | problem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 build | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 resolution | punct |
| 9 | resolution | resolution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 problem | conj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 ending | cc |
| 11 | ending | ending | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 problem | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | gerund | you not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | build up | imperative | you not said here | problem and resolution and ending | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
Option 2
A diagram of the rhymes in a poem
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 diagram | det |
| 2 | diagram | diagram | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 rhymes | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 rhymes | det |
| 5 | rhymes | rhyme | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 diagram | nmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 poem | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 poem | det |
| 8 | poem | poem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rhymes | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A list of facts arranged in alphabetical order
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 list | det |
| 2 | list | list | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 facts | case |
| 4 | facts | fact | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 list | nmod |
| 5 | arranged | arrange | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 facts | acl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 order | case |
| 7 | alphabetical | alphabetical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 order | amod |
| 8 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 arranged | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrange | participle | facts not said here | alphabetical order | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in order=Destination | ||||
| 2 | list | facts | nom list «communication transitive»: of=patient |
Option 4
A table of tenses for each verb
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 table | det |
| 2 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 tenses | case |
| 4 | tenses | tense | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 table | nmod |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 verb | case |
| 6 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 verb | det |
| 7 | verb | verb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 table | nmod |
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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