Exam question 2 · Household Tales, The Juniper Tree, part 1: a childless wif…

At what hour of the night did the elves arrive to begin their labour?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: elves · What happens: arrive, begin · To what, where: labour

This is exam question 2 of lesson 763 «Household Tales, The Juniper Tree, part 1: a childless wife wishes for a red-and-white child, and her stepson's life turns dark» 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 hour	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 hour	nsubj
3	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 arrive	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 night	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 night	det
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hour	nmod
7	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 arrive	aux
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 elves	det
9	elves	elf	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 arrive	nsubj
10	arrive	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	to	to	PART	_	12 begin	mark
12	begin	begin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 arrive	xcomp
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 labour	nmod:poss
14	labour	labour	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 begin	obj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 arrive	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	arrive	past · do-support	the elves				hour		tree rules
2	begin	to-infinitive	the elves not said here	elves's labour					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent labour=Eventuality

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

At half past nine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	4 nine	case
2	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	4 nine	det:predet
3	past	past	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 nine	amod
4	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 2

At dawn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	2 dawn	case
2	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

At midnight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	2 midnight	case
2	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

At noon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	2 noon	case
2	noon	noon	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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