Exam question 3 · Norse Tales, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, part 6:…

At what moment did the hot tallow fall upon the sleeping Prince's shirt?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: moment, hot tallow · What happens: do, fall · To what, where: sleeping

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1419 «Norse Tales, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, part 6: the girl lights a candle, the prince flees, and she searches the winds» 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	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	obj
3	moment	moment	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	7 tallow	det
6	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 tallow	amod
7	tallow	tallow	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fall	nsubj
8	fall	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	ccomp
9	upon	upon	ADP	_	11 sleeping	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sleeping	det
11	sleeping	sleeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fall	obl
12	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 shirt	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 Prince	case
14	shirt	shirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sleeping	conj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	moment						tree rules
2	fall	present	the hot tallow			the sleeping and Prince's shirt			vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon sleeping=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

as he woke up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	as	as	SCONJ	_	3 woke	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 woke	nsubj
3	woke	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 woke	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wake up	past	he						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

when she kissed him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 kissed	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 kissed	nsubj
3	kissed	kiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 kissed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kiss	past	she	him = he					vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent

Option 3

when she lit the lamp

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 lit	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lit	nsubj
3	lit	light	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 lamp	det
5	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lit	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	light	past	she	the lamp					vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lamp=Product

Option 4

when she kissed him, just as he was waking up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 kissed	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 kissed	nsubj
3	kissed	kiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 kissed	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 waking	punct
6	just	just	ADV	_	10 waking	advmod
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 waking	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 waking	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 waking	aux
10	waking	wake	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 kissed	advcl
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 waking	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kiss	past	she	him = he					vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent
2	wake up	past · progressive	he						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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