Exam question 4 · English Fairy Tales, The Master and His Pupil: a curious l…

What was the approximate level of the flood when the master returned to the chamber?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: master · What happens: be, return · To what, where: approximate level

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1953 «English Fairy Tales, The Master and His Pupil: a curious lad calls up a demon and nearly drowns in water» 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 level	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 level	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 level	det
4	approximate	approximate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 level	amod
5	level	level	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 flood	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 flood	det
8	flood	flood	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 level	nmod
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 returned	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 master	det
11	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 returned	nsubj
12	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 flood	acl:relcl
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 chamber	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 chamber	det
15	chamber	chamber	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 returned	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 level	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the approximate level				of the flood	tree rules
2	return	past	the master					to the chamber result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to chamber=Result

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

Up over the top of the boy's head and almost to the cellar roof

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Up	up	ADV	_	4 top	advmod
2	over	over	ADP	_	4 top	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 top	det
4	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	9 head	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 boy	det
7	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 head	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 boy	case
9	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 top	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 roof	cc
11	almost	almost	ADV	_	15 roof	advmod
12	to	to	ADP	_	15 roof	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 roof	det
14	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 roof	compound
15	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 top	conj

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

Option 2

Right up to the ceiling of the chamber, filling the whole room entirely

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Right	right	ADV	_	5 ceiling	advmod
2	up	up	ADP	_	5 ceiling	case
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 ceiling	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ceiling	det
5	ceiling	ceiling	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 chamber	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 chamber	det
8	chamber	chamber	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ceiling	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 filling	punct
10	filling	fill	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 ceiling	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 room	det
12	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 room	amod
13	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 filling	obj
14	entirely	entirely	ADV	_	10 filling	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fill	gerund		the whole room				entirely property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent room=Patient

Option 3

Around the pupil's chest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Around	around	ADP	_	5 chest	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 pupil	det
3	pupil	pupil	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chest	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 pupil	case
5	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Up to the pupil's chin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Up	up	ADV	_	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	6 chin	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 pupil	det
4	pupil	pupil	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 chin	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 pupil	case
6	chin	chin	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Up	obl

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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