Test 4 · ★★ · Map reading puzzles

A boy in Melbourne stands with his back to the midday Sun. Which way is he facing?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: boy · What happens: stand, face · To what, where: way

This is test 4 · ★★ of lesson 49 «Map reading puzzles» of the world course of Mova's primary school. 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stands	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Melbourne	case
4	Melbourne	Melbourne	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	stands	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 back	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 back	nmod:poss
8	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stands	obl
9	to	to	ADP	_	12 Sun.	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Sun.	det
11	midday	midday	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 Sun.	compound
12	Sun.	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 stands	obl
13	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	14 way	det
14	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 facing	obj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 facing	aux
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 facing	nsubj
17	facing	face	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 stands	advcl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 stands	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	present	a boy in Melbourne				sunday	with boy's back	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	face	present · progressive	boy	which way					vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent way=Destination

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

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

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.

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ 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 4

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.

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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