Exam question 4 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Youth Who Went Forth to Learn Wha…

At what hour does the apparition of the castle's occupants come to an end?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: occupants · What happens: do, come · To what, where: apparition

This is exam question 4 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 hour	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 hour	nsubj
3	hour	hour	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 apparition	det
6	apparition	apparition	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 does	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	11 occupants	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 castle	det
9	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 occupants	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 castle	case
11	occupants	occupant	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 come	nsubj
12	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 apparition	acl:relcl
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 end	case
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 end	det
15	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 come	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 does	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present		the apparition			hour		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apparition=Eventuality
2	come	present	the castle's occupants	the apparition not said here			to a end		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location apparition=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 · ✓ the right answer

at twelve o'clock

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	at	at	ADP	_	3 o'clock	case
2	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 o'clock	nummod
3	o'clock	o'clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	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

at twelve o'clock exactly, by the bell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	at	at	ADP	_	3 o'clock	case
2	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 o'clock	nummod
3	o'clock	o'clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	3 o'clock	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 bell	punct
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 bell	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bell	det
8	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 o'clock	conj

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

Option 4

when the cock crows

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 crows	det
3	cock	cock	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 crows	compound
4	crows	crow	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 when	nsubj

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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