Exam question 3 · Hauff's Fairy Tales, Dwarf Long Nose, part 43: the goose f…

What period of time had the visiting prince remained in the residence of the grand duke at the moment of the events described?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: period · What happens: have, remain, describe · To what, where: visiting prince, residence, events

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1792 «Hauff's Fairy Tales, Dwarf Long Nose, part 43: the goose finds the magic herb for the pasty» 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	5 had	obj
2	period	period	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 time	case
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 period	nmod
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 prince	det
7	visiting	visiting	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 prince	compound
8	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	obj
9	remained	remain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 prince	acl
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 residence	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 residence	det
12	residence	residence	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 remained	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 duke	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 duke	det
15	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 duke	amod
16	duke	duke	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 residence	nmod
17	at	at	ADP	_	19 moment	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 moment	det
19	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 duke	nmod
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 events	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 events	det
22	events	event	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 moment	nmod
23	described	describe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 events	acl
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 had	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	have	past	period of time	the visiting prince		tree rules
2	remain	participle		the visiting prince not said here	the residence of the grand duke at the moment of the events	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in residence=Location
3	describe	participle		the events not said here		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent

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

a fortnight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 fortnight	det
2	fortnight	fortnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

since the start of the autumn feast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	since	since	ADP	_	3 start	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 start	det
3	start	start	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 feast	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 feast	det
6	autumn	autumn	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 feast	compound
7	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 start	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start			the autumn feast					nom start «event transitive»: of=patient

Option 3

for a whole long fortnight already

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	for	for	ADP	_	5 fortnight	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 fortnight	det
3	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fortnight	amod
4	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fortnight	amod
5	fortnight	fortnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	already	already	ADV	_	5 fortnight	advmod

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

Option 4

two months

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 months	nummod
2	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	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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