Exam question 3 · Household Tales, The Crystal Coffin, part 1: a tailor shel…

With reference to the text, what was the condition of the maiden when the tailor first beheld her?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: reference, tailor · What happens: be, behold · To what, where: condition, her

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1926 «Household Tales, The Crystal Coffin, part 1: a tailor shelters with a grumpy old man, a stag carries him underground, and he frees a maiden from a glass coffin» 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	With	with	ADP	_	2 reference	case
2	reference	reference	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 text	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 text	det
5	text	text	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reference	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 condition	punct
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 condition	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 condition	cop
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 condition	det
10	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reference	conj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 maiden	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 maiden	det
13	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 condition	nmod
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 beheld	advmod
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 tailor	det
16	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 beheld	nsubj
17	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	18 beheld	advmod
18	beheld	behold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 condition	advcl
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 beheld	obj
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 reference	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	reference to the text and the condition	the condition				of the maiden	tree rules
2	behold	past	the tailor	her = she				first property	vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus

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 · ✓ the right answer

She lay as though sleeping

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lay	nsubj
2	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	as	as	ADV	_	2 lay	advmod
4	though	though	ADP	_	5 sleeping	case
5	sleeping	sleeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lay	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	past	She					though sleeping	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

She lay as though sleeping peacefully, untouched by time, in a glass coffin in the hall

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lay	nsubj
2	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	as	as	ADV	_	2 lay	advmod
4	though	though	SCONJ	_	5 sleeping	mark
5	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 lay	advcl
6	peacefully	peacefully	ADV	_	5 sleeping	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 untouched	punct
8	untouched	untouched	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 lay	advcl
9	by	by	ADP	_	10 time	case
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 untouched	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 coffin	punct
12	in	in	ADP	_	15 coffin	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 coffin	det
14	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 coffin	compound
15	coffin	coffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lay	obl
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 hall	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 hall	det
18	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 coffin	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	past	She			a glass coffin in the hall			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in coffin=Location
2	sleep	gerund	She not said here					peacefully property	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

She lay as though sleeping, with her hair spread across the silk cushion

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lay	nsubj
2	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	as	as	ADV	_	2 lay	advmod
4	though	though	SCONJ	_	5 sleeping	mark
5	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 lay	advcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 spread	punct
7	with	with	SCONJ	_	10 spread	mark
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 hair	nmod:poss
9	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 spread	nsubj
10	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 lay	conj
11	across	across	ADP	_	14 cushion	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 cushion	det
13	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 cushion	compound
14	cushion	cushion	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 spread	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	lie	past	She		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	sleep	gerund	She not said here		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	spread	past	her hair	the silk cushion	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme across cushion=Destination

Option 4

She sat quite still and quiet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sat	nsubj
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	quite	quite	ADV	_	4 still	advmod
4	still	still	ADV	_	2 sat	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 quiet	cc
6	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sat	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	She				still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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