Exam question 4 · Perrault's Tales, Cinderilla, part 10: a coachman, footmen…

At what hour did Cinderilla depart from the second ball?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Cinderilla · What happens: depart · To what, where: second ball

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1085 «Perrault's Tales, Cinderilla, part 10: a coachman, footmen and a slipper that fits» 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 hour	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 hour	nsubj
3	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 depart	obl
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 depart	aux
5	Cinderilla	Cinderilla	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 depart	nsubj
6	depart	depart	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	from	from	ADP	_	10 ball	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 ball	det
9	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	10 ball	amod
10	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 depart	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 depart	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	depart	past · do-support	Cinderilla			the second ball	hour		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from ball=Initial_Location

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

at the stroke of twelve on the palace clock tower

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	at	at	ADP	_	3 stroke	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 stroke	det
3	stroke	stroke	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 twelve	case
5	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 stroke	nmod
6	on	on	ADP	_	10 tower	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 tower	det
8	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 clock	compound
9	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tower	compound
10	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stroke	nmod

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

Option 2

at the stroke of twelve, just before the clock finished

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	at	at	ADP	_	3 stroke	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 stroke	det
3	stroke	stroke	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 clock	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 twelve	case
5	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 stroke	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 stroke	punct
7	just	just	ADV	_	10 clock	advmod
8	before	before	ADP	_	10 clock	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 clock	det
10	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 clock	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	finish	participle		the clock not said here					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

at the stroke of twelve

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	at	at	ADP	_	3 stroke	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 stroke	det
3	stroke	stroke	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 twelve	case
5	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 stroke	nmod

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

Option 4

at the chime of eleven

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	at	at	ADP	_	3 chime	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 chime	det
3	chime	chime	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 eleven	case
5	eleven	eleven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 chime	nmod

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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