Exam question 4 · Hauff's Fairy Tales, The Dwarf Nose, part 41: Mother calls…

Identify the location in which the boy first examined his altered appearance.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, boy · What happens: identify, examine · To what, where: location, altered appearance

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1790 «Hauff's Fairy Tales, The Dwarf Nose, part 41: Mother calls Jem a dwarf, father forgets him» 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 location	det
3	location	location	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 examined	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 boy	det
7	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 examined	nsubj
8	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 examined	advmod
9	examined	examine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 location	acl:relcl
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 appearance	nmod:poss
11	altered	altered	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 appearance	amod
12	appearance	appearance	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 examined	obj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the location					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent location=Theme
2	examine	past	the boy	boy's altered appearance		the location		first property	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent appearance=Theme

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 cobbler's shop

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cobbler	det
2	cobbler	cobbler	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shop	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 cobbler	case
4	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

the market

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 market	det
2	market	market	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

the barber's shop

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 barber	det
2	barber	barber	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shop	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 barber	case
4	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

the shop

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 shop	det
2	shop	shop	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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