Exam question 2 · Hauff's Tales, The Cold Heart, part 27: Peter takes the ma…

What was found inside the cupboard once the magic root had opened its seven locks?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: find, open · To what, where: cupboard, magic root

This is exam question 2 of lesson 687 «Hauff's Tales, The Cold Heart, part 27: Peter takes the magic root, steals the gold, and Lucia gets a suitor» 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	3 found	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 found	aux:pass
3	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	inside	inside	ADP	_	6 cupboard	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cupboard	det
6	cupboard	cupboard	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 found	obl
7	once	once	SCONJ	_	12 opened	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 root	det
9	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 root	amod
10	root	root	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 opened	nsubj:pass
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 opened	aux
12	opened	open	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 found	advcl
13	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 locks	nmod:poss
14	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 locks	nummod
15	locks	lock	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 opened	obj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 found	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past · passive				the cupboard			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
2	open	past · perfect · passive		the magic root					vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme lock=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

a chest of silver rings

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 chest	det
2	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 rings	case
4	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rings	compound
5	rings	ring	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 chest	nmod

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

some gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 gold	det
2	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

a store of gold pieces

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 store	det
2	store	store	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 pieces	case
4	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pieces	compound
5	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 store	nmod

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

Option 4

a bag of silver coins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bag	det
2	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 coins	case
4	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 coins	compound
5	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 bag	nmod

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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