Exam question 4 · Famous Tales, Picciola, part 21: Charney's plant is saved,…

Upon what occasion did Mignon perform her dance among the eggs?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mignon · What happens: perform, dance · To what, where: dance

This is exam question 4 of lesson 361 «Famous Tales, Picciola, part 21: Charney's plant is saved, and Mignon dances» 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=Int	6 perform	obj
3	occasion	occasion	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 what	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 perform	aux
5	Mignon	Mignon	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 perform	nsubj
6	perform	perform	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 dance	nmod:poss
8	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 perform	obj
9	among	among	ADP	_	11 eggs	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 eggs	det
11	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 perform	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 perform	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	perform	past · do-support	Mignon	Mignon's dance				among the eggs	tree rules
2	dance		Mignon						nom dance «communication transitive»: poss=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 · ✓ the right answer

when Wilhelm was weary and sad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	when	when	SCONJ	_	4 weary	mark
2	Wilhelm	Wilhelm	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 weary	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 weary	cop
4	weary	weary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 sad	cc
6	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 weary	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Wilhelm					weary property	tree rules
2	be		Wilhelm not said here						tree rules

Option 2

when Wilhelm was weary and sad after a long day of travel

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	when	when	SCONJ	_	4 weary	mark
2	Wilhelm	Wilhelm	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 weary	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 weary	cop
4	weary	weary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 sad	cc
6	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 weary	conj
7	after	after	ADP	_	10 day	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 day	det
9	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 day	amod
10	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 weary	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 travel	case
12	travel	travel	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 day	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Wilhelm				day	weary property	tree rules
2	be		Wilhelm not said here						tree rules

Option 3

when the troupe was leaving town

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 leaving	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 troupe	det
3	troupe	troupe	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 leaving	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 leaving	aux
5	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 leaving	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	past · progressive	the troupe	town					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent town=Theme

Option 4

after the crowd had left the hall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	after	after	SCONJ	_	5 left	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 crowd	det
3	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 left	nsubj:pass
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 left	aux
5	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hall	det
7	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 left	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	past · perfect · passive		the crowd					vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme hall=Attribute

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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