Exam question 2 · Fairy Book, A French Puck, part 16: the giant's soul is fo…

Upon what occasion did the giant's shadow cease to move?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: occasion · What happens: do, move · To what, where: shadow cease

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1291 «Fairy Book, A French Puck, part 16: the giant's soul is found, then Puck starts his pranks» 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	Upon	upon	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	obj
3	occasion	occasion	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 giant	det
6	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cease	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 giant	case
8	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cease	compound
9	cease	cease	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 move	mark
11	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 cease	acl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	occasion	the giant's shadow cease					tree rules
2	move	to-infinitive	occasion not said here	the giant's shadow cease not said here					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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

When the egg was thrown away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	When	when	SCONJ	_	5 thrown	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 egg	det
3	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 thrown	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 thrown	aux:pass
5	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	away	away	ADV	_	5 thrown	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw away	past · passive		the egg				away property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 2 · ← 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 3

On the hill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	On	on	ADP	_	3 hill	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 hill	det
3	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Upon the crushing of the egg

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Upon	upon	ADP	_	3 crushing	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 crushing	det
3	crushing	crushing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 egg	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 egg	det
6	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 crushing	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crush			the egg					nom crushing «act transitive»: of=patient

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