Exam question 4 · Popular Tales, The Black Thief and the Knight of the Glen,…

Where was the Thief concealed when the guards entered the vault?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Thief, guards · What happens: be, conceal, enter · To what, where: vault

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1517 «Popular Tales, The Black Thief and the Knight of the Glen, part 14: the thieves are caught, and the Black Thief tells two tales to save his neck» 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=Int	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Where	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Thief	det
4	Thief	Thief	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 concealed	nsubj
5	concealed	conceal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Where	advcl:relcl
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 entered	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 guards	det
8	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 entered	nsubj
9	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 concealed	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 vault	det
11	vault	vault	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 entered	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Where	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past			where property	tree rules
2	conceal	past	the Thief			vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	enter	past	the guards	the vault		vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme vault=Destination

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 · ✓ the right answer

in a dark corner by the entrance

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	in	in	ADP	_	4 corner	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 corner	det
3	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 corner	amod
4	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 entrance	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 entrance	det
7	entrance	entrance	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 corner	nmod

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

Option 2

behind the iron 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	iron	iron	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 door	amod
4	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

under a pile of old straw

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	under	under	ADP	_	3 pile	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 pile	det
3	pile	pile	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 straw	case
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 straw	amod
6	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pile	nmod

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

Option 4

in a dark corner by the entrance, pressed flat against the cold stone wall

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	in	in	ADP	_	4 corner	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 corner	det
3	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 corner	amod
4	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 entrance	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 entrance	det
7	entrance	entrance	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 corner	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 pressed	punct
9	pressed	press	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 corner	acl
10	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 pressed	xcomp
11	against	against	ADP	_	15 wall	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 wall	det
13	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 wall	amod
14	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 wall	compound
15	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pressed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	press	participle		a dark corner by the entrance not said here				against the cold stone wall; flat property	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent against wall=Theme

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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