Test 11 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, Princess Graciosa and Prince Percinet, pa…

What time of night was she dumped in the forest?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: dump · To what, where: she, forest

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1542 «Blue Fairy Book, Princess Graciosa and Prince Percinet, part 39: feathers instead of rods, a forest, and a crystal palace» of the books course of Mova's primary school. 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	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	2 time	det
2	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dumped	obl:unmarked
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 night	case
4	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 time	nmod
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 dumped	aux:pass
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 dumped	nsubj
7	dumped	dump	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 forest	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 forest	det
10	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dumped	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 dumped	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dump	past · passive		she		the forest	time		vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme in forest=Trajectory

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 dead of the night, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dead	det
2	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 night	case
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 night	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 night	det
5	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 mate	punct
7	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 night	conj

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

the middle of the pitch black

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 middle	det
2	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 black	obl:unmarked
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 pitch	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 pitch	det
5	pitch	pitch	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 middle	nmod
6	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3

the small hours of the dark

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 hours	det
2	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hours	amod
3	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 dark	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dark	det
6	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hours	nmod

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

Option 4

midnight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	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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