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title: Which feature did the Moon attribute to the spectral city of Venice? — Picture-Book Without Pictures, Pulcine… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which feature did the Moon attribute to the spectral city of Venice? Exam question 3 of lesson 905 «Picture-Book Without Pictures, Pulcinella, part 2: the clown mourns Columbine» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option;
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# Exam question 3 · Picture-Book Without Pictures, Pulcinella, part 2: the clo…

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Which feature did the Moon attribute to the spectral city of Venice?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** feature · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** Moon attribute

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 905 «Picture-Book Without Pictures, Pulcinella, part 2: the clown mourns Columbine» of the books 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/905-pg27200-part116/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:905-pg27200-part116:e3:1
# text = Which feature did the Moon attribute to the spectral city of Venice?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	feature	feature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Moon	Moon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	attribute	attribute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	spectral	spectral	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Venice	Venice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | which feature | the Moon attribute |  |  |  | to the spectral city of Venice | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attribute=Eventuality |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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a widow's veil of mist over the drowned palaces

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:905-pg27200-part116:e3:o1:1
# text = a widow's veil of mist over the drowned palaces
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	widow	widow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	veil	veil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	mist	mist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	over	over	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	drowned	drown	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	amod	_	_
10	palaces	palace	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drown** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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a silver curtain of rain

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:905-pg27200-part116:e3:o2:1
# text = a silver curtain of rain
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	silver	silver	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	curtain	curtain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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a widow's veil of mist

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:905-pg27200-part116:e3:o3:1
# text = a widow's veil of mist
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	widow	widow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	veil	veil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	mist	mist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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the cold breath of the lagoon over a sleeping bride

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:905-pg27200-part116:e3:o4:1
# text = the cold breath of the lagoon over a sleeping bride
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	breath	breath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	lagoon	lagoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	over	over	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	sleeping	sleep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	amod	_	_
10	bride	bride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sleep** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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**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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