Exam question 1 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Little Claus and Big Claus, part 8…

Which object did the sexton conceal himself within, as described in the passage?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: object · What happens: conceal, describe · To what, where: sexton, passage

This is exam question 1 of lesson 869 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Little Claus and Big Claus, part 80: Little Claus tricks the farmer and sells him the sexton in a chest» 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 object	det
2	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 conceal	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 conceal	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sexton	det
5	sexton	sexton	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 conceal	nsubj
6	conceal	conceal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 conceal	obj
8	within	within	ADP	_	6 conceal	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 described	punct
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 described	mark
11	described	describe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 conceal	parataxis
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 passage	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 passage	det
14	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 described	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 conceal	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	conceal	past · do-support	which object	sexton					vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient
2	describe	participle				the passage			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent

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

A dark, damp cellar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 cellar	det
2	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cellar	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 dark	punct
4	damp	damp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cellar	amod
5	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

A small wooden box

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 box	det
2	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 box	amod
3	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 box	amod
4	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A large, empty chest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 chest	det
2	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 chest	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 large	punct
4	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 chest	amod
5	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

A large, empty chest that the farmer had carried in

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 chest	det
2	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 chest	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 large	punct
4	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 chest	amod
5	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 carried	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 farmer	det
8	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 carried	nsubj:pass
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 carried	aux
10	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 chest	advcl
11	in	in	ADP	_	10 carried	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	past · perfect · passive		the farmer					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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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