Exam question 2 · Glaciers, ice ages and polar lands

Identify the characteristic form of a valley carved by a glacier.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, carve, form · To what, where: characteristic form, valley

This is exam question 2 of lesson 65 «Glaciers, ice ages and polar lands» 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	4 form	det
3	characteristic	characteristic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 form	amod
4	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 valley	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 valley	det
7	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 form	nmod
8	carved	carve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 valley	acl
9	by	by	ADP	_	11 glacier	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 glacier	det
11	glacier	glacier	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 carved	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the characteristic form of a valley		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent form=Theme
2	carve	participle		a valley not said here	by a glacier	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	form			a valley		nom form «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

A valley shaped like the letter W

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 valley	det
2	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	shaped	shape	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 valley	acl
4	like	like	ADP	_	6 letter	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 letter	det
6	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shaped	obl
7	W	W	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 letter	appos

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shape	participle		a valley not said here				like the letter	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

Option 2

A valley shaped like the letter V

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 valley	det
2	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	shaped	shape	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 valley	acl
4	like	like	ADP	_	7 V	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 V	det
6	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 V	compound
7	V	v	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shaped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shape	participle		a valley not said here				like the letter V	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A valley shaped like the letter U

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 valley	det
2	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	shaped	shape	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 valley	acl
4	like	like	ADP	_	6 letter	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 letter	det
6	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shaped	obl
7	U	U	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 letter	appos

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shape	participle		a valley not said here				like the letter	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

Option 4

A valley of perfectly circular form

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 valley	det
2	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 form	case
4	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	_	5 circular	advmod
5	circular	circular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 form	amod
6	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 valley	nmod

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

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