Exam question 2 · The Brown Fairy Book, What the Rose did to the Cypress, pa…

With reference to the text, at what hour of the day did the quarry vanish from the prince's sight?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: hour, quarry, prince · What happens: do, vanish, sight · To what, where: sight

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1200 «The Brown Fairy Book, What the Rose did to the Cypress, part 1: a prince chases a deer, gets lost in the desert and meets a barefoot stranger who is a lost king» 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	With	with	ADP	_	2 reference	case
2	reference	reference	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 did	obl
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 text	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 text	det
5	text	text	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reference	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 hour	punct
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 hour	case
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 hour	nsubj
9	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 did	nsubj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 day	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 day	det
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hour	nmod
13	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 quarry	det
15	quarry	quarry	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 vanish	nsubj
16	vanish	vanish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 did	ccomp
17	from	from	ADP	_	21 sight	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 prince	det
19	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sight	nmod:poss
20	's	's	PART	_	19 prince	case
21	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 vanish	obl
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	do	past	hour of the day		with reference to the text	tree rules
2	vanish	present	the quarry	the prince's sight		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from sight=Initial_Location
3	sight		the prince			nom sight «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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 noon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	at	at	ADP	_	2 noon	case
2	noon	noon	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

at midday, when the sun stood in the zenith

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	at	at	ADP	_	2 midday	case
2	midday	midday	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stood	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 midday	punct
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 stood	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sun	det
6	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stood	nsubj
7	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 zenith	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 zenith	det
10	zenith	zenith	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stood	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past	the sun			midday		in the zenith	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at midday=Location

Option 3

at midday

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	at	at	ADP	_	2 midday	case
2	midday	midday	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

at dusk, when the shadows were long

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	at	at	ADP	_	2 dusk	case
2	dusk	dusk	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 long	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 dusk	punct
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 long	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 shadows	det
6	shadows	shadow	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 long	nsubj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 long	cop
8	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the shadows				dusk	long property	tree rules

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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