Exam question 1 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Youth Who Went Forth to Learn Wha…

In which location does the youth keep his vigil during the night?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: youth · What happens: do, keep · To what, where: location, vigil

This is exam question 1 of lesson 782 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, part 58: on the second night, half-men fall down the chimney and play nine-pins» 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 location	case
2	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	3 location	det
3	location	location	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 does	obl
4	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 youth	det
6	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 keep	nsubj
7	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 does	ccomp
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 vigil	nmod:poss
9	vigil	vigil	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 keep	obj
10	during	during	ADP	_	12 night	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 night	det
12	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 keep	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 does	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present				which location			tree rules
2	keep	present	the youth	his vigil			night		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vigil=Theme

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

inside the royal palace

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	inside	inside	ADP	_	4 palace	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 palace	det
3	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 palace	amod
4	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

in the dark stables

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	in	in	ADP	_	4 stables	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 stables	det
3	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stables	amod
4	stables	stable	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

in the haunted castle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	in	in	ADP	_	4 castle	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 castle	det
3	haunted	haunt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 castle	amod
4	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	haunt	participle							vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

at the gate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	at	at	ADP	_	3 gate	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 gate	det
3	gate	gate	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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