Exam question 3 · Legendary Fictions of the Irish Celts, A Lost Paradise: a…

Where did the husband and wife conceal themselves upon the mouse's escape?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: husband, mouse · What happens: be, conceal, escape · To what, where: husband, escape

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1286 «Legendary Fictions of the Irish Celts, A Lost Paradise: a hungry couple is given a palace, then loses it by lifting a lid» 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	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	7 conceal	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Where	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 husband	det
4	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 conceal	nsubj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 wife	cc
6	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 husband	conj
7	conceal	conceal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	7 conceal	obj
9	upon	upon	ADP	_	13 escape	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 mouse	det
11	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 escape	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 mouse	case
13	escape	escape	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 conceal	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 conceal	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past				where property	tree rules
2	conceal	present	the husband and wife	husband	the mouse's escape		vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient upon escape=Location
3	escape		the mouse				nom escape «act intransitive»: 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

Beneath the long dining table in the great hall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Beneath	beneath	ADP	_	5 table	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 table	det
3	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 table	amod
4	dining	dining	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 table	compound
5	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 hall	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 hall	det
8	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 hall	amod
9	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 table	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Beneath the dining table

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Beneath	beneath	ADP	_	4 table	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 table	det
3	dining	dining	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 table	compound
4	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Behind the kitchen door

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Behind	behind	ADP	_	4 door	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 door	det
3	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 door	compound
4	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Behind it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Behind	behind	ADP	_	2 it	case
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	root	root

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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