Exam question 1 · English Fairy Tales, Johnny-Cake, part 1: Mr. Fox is cut t…

Upon what object did Lady Mary conceal herself when Mr. Fox entered the hall?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: object, Fox · What happens: do, conceal, enter · To what, where: Lady Mary, Mary, hall

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1965 «English Fairy Tales, Johnny-Cake, part 1: Mr. Fox is cut to pieces, Lazy Jack wins a bride, and a cake escapes from the oven» 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	Upon	upon	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 conceal	obl
3	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 what	acl:relcl
5	Lady	Lady	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Mary	compound
6	Mary	Mary	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	conceal	conceal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	7 conceal	obj
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 entered	advmod
10	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Fox	nmod:desc
11	Fox	Fox	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 entered	nsubj
12	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 conceal	advcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 hall	det
14	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 entered	obj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 conceal	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past	object	Lady Mary	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mary=Eventuality
2	conceal	present		Mary	vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent herself=Patient upon what=Location
3	enter	past	Fox Mr.	the hall	vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hall=Destination

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

a large wooden cask near the door

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 cask	det
2	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cask	amod
3	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cask	amod
4	cask	cask	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	near	near	ADP	_	7 door	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 door	det
7	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cask	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

a cask

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

a barrel

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

a pillar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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