Exam question 3 · Finding your way with landmarks
It being given that the observer is situated in Australia at midday, select the part of the sky in which the Sun appears.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Sun · What happens: give, situate, select, appear · To what, where: It, observer, Australia, part
This is exam question 3 of lesson 16 «Finding your way with landmarks» of the everyday 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 given | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 given | aux:pass |
| 3 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 situated | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 observer | det |
| 6 | observer | observer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 situated | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 situated | aux:pass |
| 8 | situated | situate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 given | advcl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 Australia | case |
| 10 | Australia | Australia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 situated | obl |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 midday | case |
| 12 | midday | midday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 situated | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 select | punct |
| 14 | select | select | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 given | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 part | det |
| 16 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 select | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 sky | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 sky | det |
| 19 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 part | nmod |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 which | case |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 appears | obl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Sun | det |
| 23 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 appears | nsubj |
| 24 | appears | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 part | acl:relcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 given | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | gerund · passive | It | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | situate | present · passive | the observer | Australia | at midday | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in australia=Destination | |||
| 3 | select | infinitive | the part of the sky | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme | |||||
| 4 | appear | present | the Sun | the part of the sky | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=Location |
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 southern part of the sky
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 part | det |
| 2 | southern | southern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 part | amod |
| 3 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 sky | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sky | det |
| 6 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 part | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Directly beneath the horizon
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Directly | directly | ADV | _ | 4 horizon | advmod |
| 2 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 4 horizon | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 horizon | det |
| 4 | horizon | horizon | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The western part of the sky
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 part | det |
| 2 | western | western | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 part | amod |
| 3 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 sky | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sky | det |
| 6 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 part | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
The northern part of the sky
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 part | det |
| 2 | northern | northern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 part | amod |
| 3 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 sky | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sky | det |
| 6 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 part | 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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