Exam question 2 · Blue Fairy Book, The Star Gazer, part 2: Michael hides und…

At which hour of the night did the musical entertainment at the castle cease for the evening?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do · To what, where: musical entertainment, castle cease

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1505 «Blue Fairy Book, The Star Gazer, part 2: Michael hides under a bed, follows the princesses to a magic ball, and Lina catches on» 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	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	3 hour	det
3	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 did	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 night	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 night	det
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hour	nmod
7	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 entertainment	det
9	musical	musical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 entertainment	amod
10	entertainment	entertainment	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 did	obj
11	at	at	ADP	_	14 cease	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 cease	det
13	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 cease	compound
14	cease	cease	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 did	obl
15	for	for	ADP	_	17 evening	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 evening	det
17	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 did	obl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the musical entertainment		the castle cease	evening; hour		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent entertainment=Eventuality

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 midnight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

After the nine great chimes of night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	After	after	ADP	_	5 chimes	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 chimes	det
3	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 chimes	nummod
4	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 chimes	amod
5	chimes	chime	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 night	case
7	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chimes	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

When the cock crowed the third time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 crowed	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cock	det
3	cock	cock	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 crowed	nsubj
4	crowed	crow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 time	det
6	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 time	amod
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 crowed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crow	past	the cock				time		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

When the moon was high above the hall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 high	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 moon	det
3	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 high	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 high	cop
5	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	above	above	ADP	_	8 hall	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hall	det
8	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 high	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the moon			the hall		high 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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