Exam question 3 · Grimm's Household Tales, The Old Man and His Grandson: a w…

Which person was concealed in the closet at the time of the miller's return?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: miller · What happens: conceal, return · To what, where: person, closet

This is exam question 3 of lesson 751 «Grimm's Household Tales, The Old Man and His Grandson: a wooden calf, a raven and a hidden Devil» 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 person	det
2	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 concealed	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 concealed	aux:pass
4	concealed	conceal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 closet	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 closet	det
7	closet	closet	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 concealed	obl
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 time	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 time	det
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 concealed	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	15 return	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 miller	det
13	miller	miller	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 return	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 miller	case
15	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 time	nmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 concealed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	conceal	past · passive		which person		the closet	time		vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Patient in closet=Location
2	return		the miller						nom return «communication intransitive»: 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

The parson

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 parson	det
2	parson	parson	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

The cook

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cook	det
2	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

The raven

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 raven	det
2	raven	raven	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

The Devil

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Devil	det
2	Devil	Devil	PROPN	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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