Exam question 4 · The map of the Just So Stories: from the North Atlantic to…

Ascertain the meaning of the word «turbid» as applied to the Amazon.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: ascertain, apply, mean · To what, where: meaning, word

This is exam question 4 of lesson 61 «The map of the Just So Stories: from the North Atlantic to the Limpopo, the Amazon and Surrey» of the geography 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	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 meaning	det
3	meaning	meaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 word	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 word	det
6	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 meaning	nmod
7	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 turbid	punct
8	turbid	turbid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 word	amod
9	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 turbid	punct
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 applied	mark
11	applied	apply	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 turbid	advcl
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 Amazon	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Amazon	det
14	Amazon	Amazon	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 applied	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the meaning of the word		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meaning=Topic
2	apply	participle	you not said here		to the Amazon	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	mean			the word		nom meaning «communication transitive»: of=patient

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

Muddy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Muddy	muddy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2

Narrow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Narrow	narrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Salty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Salty	salty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4

Frozen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	freeze	participle							vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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