Exam question 3 · Andersen's Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 70: Rudy climbs to…

At what hour did the three hunters commence their ascent of the precipice?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: hour, three hunters · What happens: do, commence · To what, where: ascent

This is exam question 3 of lesson 859 «Andersen's Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 70: Rudy climbs to the eagle's nest» 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	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 commence	obl
3	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 what	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hunters	det
6	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 hunters	nummod
7	hunters	hunter	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 commence	nsubj
8	commence	commence	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 ascent	nmod:poss
10	ascent	ascent	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 commence	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 precipice	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 precipice	det
13	precipice	precipice	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ascent	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 commence	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	hour						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	commence	present	the three hunters	hunters's ascent of the precipice					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ascent=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 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 2 · ✓ the right answer

at midnight, in darkness

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
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 darkness	punct
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 darkness	case
5	darkness	darkness	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 midnight	conj

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

Option 3

at dusk, in the cold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	at	at	ADP	_	2 dusk	case
2	dusk	dusk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 cold	punct
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 cold	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cold	det
6	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dusk	conj

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

Option 4

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.

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