Exam question 3 · Map reading puzzles

Identify the direction in which shadows point at noon in Australia.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, shadows · What happens: identify, point · To what, where: direction

This is exam question 3 of lesson 49 «Map reading puzzles» of the world 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 direction	det
3	direction	direction	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 point	obl
6	shadows	shadow	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 point	nsubj
7	point	point	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 direction	acl:relcl
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 noon	case
9	noon	noon	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 point	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 Australia	case
11	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 point	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the direction					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent direction=Theme
2	point	present	shadows				noon	in Australia; in the direction	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in which=Theme

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

North

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

South

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	South	south	ADV	_	root	root

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

Option 3

West

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	West	west	ADV	_	root	root

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

Option 4

East

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	East	East	PROPN	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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