Exam question 4 · Andersen's Tales, Anne Lisbeth, part 5: Anne Lisbeth sees…

Identify the time at which the narrative of this part concludes, and state the condition of the grave at that moment.

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, narrative · What happens: identify, conclude, state, condition · To what, where: condition, grave

This is exam question 4 of lesson 794 «Andersen's Tales, Anne Lisbeth, part 5: Anne Lisbeth sees a ghostly child and digs a grave by the sea before dawn» 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 concludes	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 narrative	det
7	narrative	narrative	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 concludes	nsubj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 part	case
9	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 part	det
10	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 narrative	nmod
11	concludes	conclude	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 time	acl:relcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 state	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 state	cc
14	state	state	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Identify	parataxis
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 condition	det
16	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 state	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 grave	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 grave	det
19	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 condition	nmod
20	at	at	ADP	_	22 moment	case
21	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 moment	det
22	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 state	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here		time	vn empathize-88.2 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	conclude	present	the narrative of this part		at the time	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	state speech: other	infinitive		the condition of the grave	moment	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent condition=Topic
4	condition			the grave		nom condition «state transitive»: of=patient

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

Midnight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Midnight, with the grave dug deep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Midnight	Midnight	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 grave	punct
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 grave	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 grave	det
5	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Midnight	appos
6	dug	dig	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 grave	acl
7	deep	deep	ADV	_	6 dug	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dig	participle		the grave not said here				deep property	vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Dawn, with the grave only half dug

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dawn	Dawn	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 grave	punct
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 grave	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 grave	det
5	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Dawn	appos
6	only	only	ADV	_	7 half	advmod
7	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	8 dug	advmod
8	dug	dig	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 grave	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dig	participle		the grave not said here				half property	vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Late night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 night	amod
2	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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