Exam question 2 · Fairy Book, The Horse Gullfaxi And The Sword Gunnfoder, pa…

What was the precise sequence of concealment employed by Ingiborg on the three occasions?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: precise sequence · What happens: be, employ · To what, where: concealment, three occasions

This is exam question 2 of lesson 714 «Fairy Book, The Horse Gullfaxi And The Sword Gunnfoder, part 54: Sigurd hides three times and is cursed by a giantess» 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	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sequence	det
4	precise	precise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sequence	amod
5	sequence	sequence	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 concealment	case
7	concealment	concealment	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sequence	nmod
8	employed	employ	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 concealment	acl
9	by	by	ADP	_	10 Ingiborg	case
10	Ingiborg	Ingiborg	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 employed	obl
11	on	on	ADP	_	14 occasions	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 occasions	det
13	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 occasions	nummod
14	occasions	occasion	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 employed	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the precise sequence of concealment						tree rules
2	employ	participle		concealment not said here		the three occasions		by Ingiborg	vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=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

bed, table, panelling

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 table	punct
3	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 bed	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 panelling	punct
5	panelling	panelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 bed	conj

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

Option 2

first the bed, then the table, and last the wall panelling

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 bed	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bed	det
3	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 last	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 table	punct
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 table	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 table	det
7	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bed	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 last	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 last	cc
10	last	last	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 panelling	det
12	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 panelling	compound
13	panelling	panelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 last	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	last	infinitive	the bed and the table	the wall panelling					vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme panelling=Value

Option 3

bed, table, panelling, then the chest by the door

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 table	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 bed	punct
3	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 panelling	punct
5	panelling	panelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 table	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 chest	punct
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 chest	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 chest	det
9	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 table	conj
10	by	by	ADP	_	12 door	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 door	det
12	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 chest	nmod

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

Option 4

bed, chest, doorway

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 chest	punct
3	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 bed	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 doorway	punct
5	doorway	doorway	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 bed	conj

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

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