Exam question 2 · Missing someone: memory boxes, birthdays and special days

Identify the term denoting a sensation, such as a scent, which suddenly occasions renewed feelings of loss.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, term, occasions · What happens: identify, denote, renew · To what, where: term, sensation, scent

This is exam question 2 of lesson 68 «Missing someone: memory boxes, birthdays and special days» 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 term	det
3	term	term	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	denoting	denote	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 term	acl
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 sensation	det
6	sensation	sensation	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 denoting	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 scent	punct
8	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	11 scent	case
9	as	as	ADP	_	8 such	fixed
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 scent	det
11	scent	scent	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sensation	appos
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 renewed	punct
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 renewed	obj
14	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	16 renewed	advmod
15	occasions	occasion	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 renewed	nsubj
16	renewed	renew	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 scent	conj
17	feelings	feeling	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 renewed	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 loss	case
19	loss	loss	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 feelings	nmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the term		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent term=Theme
2	denote	gerund	the term not said here	a sensation		vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot sensation=Topic
3	renew	past	occasions	a scent	suddenly 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

A memorial service

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 service	det
2	memorial	memorial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 service	amod
3	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A grief trigger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 trigger	det
2	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 trigger	compound
3	trigger	trigger	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

A memory box

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 box	det
2	memory	memory	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 box	compound
3	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

An anniversary

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 anniversary	det
2	anniversary	anniversary	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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