Exam question 2 · Andersen's Tales, The Porter's Son, part 1: a singing-bird…

In what location did the General's daughter conceal herself after igniting the nursery curtain?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: daughter · What happens: conceal, ignite · To what, where: daughter, nursery curtain

This is exam question 2 of lesson 943 «Andersen's Tales, The Porter's Son, part 1: a singing-bird dies, and a porter's boy saves a nursery from fire» 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 conceal	obl
3	location	location	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 what	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 conceal	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 General	det
6	General	General	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 daughter	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 General	case
8	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 conceal	nsubj
9	conceal	conceal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	9 conceal	obj
11	after	after	SCONJ	_	12 igniting	mark
12	igniting	ignite	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 conceal	advcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 curtain	det
14	nursery	nursery	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 curtain	compound
15	curtain	curtain	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 igniting	obj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 conceal	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	conceal	past · do-support	the General's daughter	daughter					vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent herself=Patient in what=Location
2	ignite	gerund	the General's daughter not said here	the nursery curtain					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent curtain=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 · ← Mova's choice

in a box

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	in	in	ADP	_	3 box	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 box	det
3	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

under the carpet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	under	under	ADP	_	3 carpet	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 carpet	det
3	carpet	carpet	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

under bed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	under	under	ADP	_	2 bed	case
2	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

in the sand-box

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	in	in	ADP	_	5 box	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 box	det
3	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 box	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 sand	punct
5	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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