Exam question 2 · Andersen, The Child in the Grave, part 20: a grieving moth…

At what season of the year does the nocturnal visit to the churchyard take place?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: nocturnal visit · What happens: do, take · To what, where: nocturnal visit, place, churchyard

This is exam question 2 of lesson 809 «Andersen, The Child in the Grave, part 20: a grieving mother slips out to her son's grave at night and meets a stranger» 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 season	case
2	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	3 season	det
3	season	season	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 does	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 year	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 year	det
6	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 season	nmod
7	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 visit	det
9	nocturnal	nocturnal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 visit	amod
10	visit	visit	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 does	obj
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 churchyard	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 churchyard	det
13	churchyard	churchyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 take	obl
14	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 visit	acl:relcl
15	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 take	obj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 does	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present		the nocturnal visit			season		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent visit=Eventuality
2	take	infinitive	the nocturnal visit not said here	place		the churchyard			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent place=Theme to churchyard=Destination

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 start of late autumn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 start	det
2	start	start	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 autumn	case
4	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 autumn	amod
5	autumn	autumn	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 start	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start			late autumn					nom start «event transitive»: of=patient

Option 2

the middle of October

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 middle	det
2	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 October	case
4	October	October	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 middle	nmod

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

Option 3

midsummer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

the beginning of September

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 beginning	det
2	beginning	beginning	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 September	case
4	September	September	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 beginning	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin			September					nom beginning «event transitive»: of=patient

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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