Exam question 4 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Three Sisters: the youngest daugh…

What became of the dwelling at the stroke of midnight, following the sounds of trembling and collapse observed by the maiden?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: become, dwell, follow, observe, stroke · To what, where: stroke, sounds, collapse, midnight

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1615 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Three Sisters: the youngest daughter feeds the beasts and breaks the witch's spell» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 became	nsubj
2	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	of	of	SCONJ	_	5 dwelling	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dwelling	det
5	dwelling	dwell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 became	advcl
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 stroke	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 stroke	det
8	stroke	stroke	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dwelling	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 midnight	case
10	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stroke	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 following	punct
12	following	follow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 dwelling	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 sounds	det
14	sounds	sound	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 following	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 trembling	case
16	trembling	trembling	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sounds	nmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 collapse	cc
18	collapse	collapse	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 trembling	conj
19	observed	observe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 collapse	acl
20	by	by	ADP	_	22 maiden	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 maiden	det
22	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 observed	obl
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 became	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	become	past				vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	dwell	gerund		the stroke of midnight		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at stroke=Location
3	follow	gerund	the sounds of trembling and collapse			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Theme
4	observe	participle	collapse not said here		by the maiden	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	stroke		midnight			nom stroke «act transitive»: of=patient

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 house crumbled and then was changed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 house	det
2	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 crumbled	nsubj
3	crumbled	crumble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 changed	cc
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 changed	advmod
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 changed	aux:pass
7	changed	change	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 crumbled	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crumble	past	the house						vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	change	past · passive	the house not said here				then		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»

Option 2

the roof caved in and was made new

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 roof	det
2	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 made	nsubj:pass
3	caved	cave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 roof	acl
4	in	in	ADV	_	3 caved	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 caved	cc
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 made	aux:pass
7	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 made	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cave in	participle		the roof not said here					tree rules
2	make	past · passive		the roof				new property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

the roof fell in and then it was transformed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 roof	det
2	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fell	nsubj
3	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADV	_	3 fell	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 transformed	cc
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 transformed	advmod
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 transformed	nsubj:pass
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 transformed	aux:pass
9	transformed	transform	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 fell	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall in	past	the roof						vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	transform	past · passive		roof			then		vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 4

the roof fell in

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 roof	det
2	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fell	nsubj
3	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADV	_	3 fell	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall in	past	the roof						vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=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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