Exam question 2 · Fairy Tales, The Three Snake-Leaves, part 64: a tailor fre…

In what location was the lady's castle concealed by the magician?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: location · What happens: be, conceal · To what, where: castle

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1927 «Fairy Tales, The Three Snake-Leaves, part 64: a tailor frees his bride's castle, then a young king is trapped in a royal vault» 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	root	root
3	location	location	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 castle	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 castle	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lady	det
6	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 castle	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 lady	case
8	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 what	acl:relcl
9	concealed	conceal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 castle	acl
10	by	by	ADP	_	12 magician	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 magician	det
12	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 concealed	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	location	the lady's castle					tree rules
2	conceal	participle		the lady's castle not said here				by the magician	vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent by magician=Location

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

Within a stone well.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Within	within	ADP	_	3 stone	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 stone	det
3	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 stone	advmod
5	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 stone	punct

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Within a glass box.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Within	within	ADP	_	4 box	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 box	det
3	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 box	compound
4	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 box	punct

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

Option 3

Under a hill.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Under	under	ADP	_	3 hill	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 hill	det
3	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hill	punct

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

Option 4

Inside a silver chest.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Inside	inside	ADP	_	4 chest	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 chest	det
3	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 chest	compound
4	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 chest	punct

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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