Exam question 1 · How other people remember: Día de los Muertos, Qingming an…

Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the festival of Día de los Muertos?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: follow, characteris · To what, where: festival

This is exam question 1 of lesson 65 «How other people remember: Día de los Muertos, Qingming and more» of the religion ethics 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	8 characterises	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 statements	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 statements	det
4	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 statements	amod
5	statements	statement	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 characterises	obl
6	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	7 accurately	advmod
7	accurately	accurately	ADV	_	8 characterises	advmod
8	characterises	characteris	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 festival	det
10	festival	festival	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 characterises	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	15 Muertos	case
12	Día	Día	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Muertos	nsubj
13	de	de	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Día	flat
14	los	Los	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Muertos	compound
15	Muertos	Muerto	PROPN	Number=Plur	10 festival	nmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 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		the festival of los Muertos				of the following statements; 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

A festival for the frightening of children by masked persons

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 festival	det
2	festival	festival	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 frightening	nsubj
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 frightening	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 frightening	det
5	frightening	frightening	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 children	case
7	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 frightening	obl
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 persons	case
9	masked	mask	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 persons	amod
10	persons	person	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 frightening	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mask	participle							vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A celebration in memory of deceased loved ones, combining Catholic and Indigenous traditions

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 celebration	det
2	celebration	celebration	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 memory	case
4	memory	memory	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 celebration	nmod
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 ones	case
6	deceased	decease	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 ones	amod
7	loved	love	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 ones	amod
8	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 memory	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 combining	punct
10	combining	combine	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 celebration	conj
11	Catholic	catholic	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 combining	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 traditions	cc
13	Indigenous	indigenous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 traditions	amod
14	traditions	tradition	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 Catholic	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	roles by
1	decease	participle		vn die-42.4 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	love	participle		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer
3	combine	gerund	Catholic and Indigenous traditions	vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent catholic=Patient

Option 3

An occasion for the commemoration of military victories

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 occasion	det
2	occasion	occasion	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 commemoration	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 commemoration	det
5	commemoration	commemoration	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 occasion	nmod
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 victories	case
7	military	military	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 victories	amod
8	victories	victory	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 commemoration	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	commemorate			military victories					nom commemoration «event transitive»: of=patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

A festival of the harvest without reference to the dead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 festival	det
2	festival	festival	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 harvest	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 harvest	det
5	harvest	harvest	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 festival	nmod
6	without	without	ADP	_	7 reference	case
7	reference	reference	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 harvest	nmod
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 dead	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 dead	det
10	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 festival	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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