Exam question 2 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Youth Who Could Not Shiver: a bri…

At which point in the narrative does the old bearded man first appear to the youth?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, appear · To what, where: old bearded man, point

This is exam question 2 of lesson 104 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Youth Who Could Not Shiver: a bride pours cold fish over him and he learns to shiver» 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	3 point	case
2	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	3 point	det
3	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 does	obl
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 narrative	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 narrative	det
6	narrative	narrative	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 point	nmod
7	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 man	det
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 man	amod
10	bearded	bearded	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 man	amod
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 does	obj
12	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	13 appear	advmod
13	appear	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 does	advcl
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 youth	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 youth	det
16	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 appear	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 does	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present		the old bearded man		which point in the narrative			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Eventuality
2	appear	present						to the youth; first property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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

In the middle of the second night, before the coffin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 middle	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 middle	det
3	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 night	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 night	det
6	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 night	amod
7	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 middle	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 coffin	punct
9	before	before	ADP	_	11 coffin	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 coffin	det
11	coffin	coffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 middle	appos

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

Option 2

On the first night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	On	on	ADP	_	4 night	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 night	det
3	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 night	amod
4	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

At the close of the third night, after the coffin episode

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	3 close	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 close	det
3	close	close	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 night	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 night	det
6	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 night	amod
7	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 close	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 episode	punct
9	after	after	ADP	_	12 episode	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 episode	det
11	coffin	coffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 episode	compound
12	episode	episode	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 close	conj

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

Option 4

At the start of the first night, before the coffin is carried

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	3 start	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 start	det
3	start	start	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 night	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 night	det
6	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 night	amod
7	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 start	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 carried	punct
9	before	before	SCONJ	_	13 carried	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 coffin	det
11	coffin	coffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 carried	nsubj:pass
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 carried	aux:pass
13	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 start	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	present · passive		the coffin					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	start			the first night					nom start «event transitive»: of=patient

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