Exam question 2 · Household Tales, Hans Who Feared Nothing: Hans meets the d…

In what location did the headless dwarfs assemble and converse in the hours after midnight?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: location, headless dwarfs · What happens: do, assemble

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1800 «Household Tales, Hans Who Feared Nothing: Hans meets the dwarfs and finds the hidden treasure» 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	obj
3	location	location	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dwarfs	det
6	headless	headless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 dwarfs	amod
7	dwarfs	dwarf	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 assemble	nsubj
8	assemble	assemble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 converse	cc
10	converse	converse	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 assemble	conj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 hours	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 hours	det
13	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 assemble	obl
14	after	after	ADP	_	15 midnight	case
15	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 assemble	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	location						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
2	assemble	present	the headless dwarfs				hour; midnight		vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: 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

Near the fire under the old pines

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Near	near	ADP	_	3 fire	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fire	det
3	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	under	under	ADP	_	7 pines	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 pines	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 pines	amod
7	pines	pine	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 fire	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Close by his tent beneath a tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	by	by	ADP	_	4 tent	case
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 tent	nmod:poss
4	tent	tent	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Close	obl
5	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	7 tree	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 tree	det
7	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tent	nmod

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

Option 3

Beneath a branch near his camp

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Beneath	beneath	ADP	_	3 branch	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 branch	det
3	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	near	near	ADP	_	6 camp	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 camp	nmod:poss
6	camp	camp	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 branch	nmod

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

Option 4

Around the minister's cart at the edge of the town, beside the gallows and the church wall

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Around	around	ADP	_	5 cart	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 minister	det
3	minister	minister	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cart	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 minister	case
5	cart	cart	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 edge	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 edge	det
8	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cart	nmod
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 town	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 town	det
11	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 edge	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 gallows	punct
13	beside	beside	ADP	_	15 gallows	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 gallows	det
15	gallows	gallows	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 cart	appos
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 wall	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 wall	det
18	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 wall	compound
19	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 gallows	conj

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

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