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title: At what hour does the apparition of the castle's occupants come to a… — Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Youth Who Wen… · tree and pragmatics
description: At what hour does the apparition of the castle's occupants come to an end? Exam question 4 of lesson 782 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, part 58: on the second night, half-men fall down the chimney and play nine-pins» of the books course of Mova's primary schoo
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# Exam question 4 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Youth Who Went Forth to Learn Wha…

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At what hour does the apparition of the castle's occupants come to an end?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** occupants · **What happens:** do, come · **To what, where:** apparition

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 782 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, part 58: on the second night, half-men fall down the chimney and play nine-pins» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/782-pg2591-part58/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:782-pg2591-part58:e4:1
# text = At what hour does the apparition of the castle's occupants come to an end?
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
3	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
4	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	apparition	apparition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	occupants	occupant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present |  | the apparition |  |  | hour |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apparition=Eventuality |
| 2 | **come** | present | the castle's occupants | the apparition *not said here* |  |  | to a end |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location apparition=Theme |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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at twelve o'clock

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:782-pg2591-part58:e4:o1:1
# text = at twelve o'clock
1	at	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	o'clock	o'clock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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at dawn

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:782-pg2591-part58:e4:o2:1
# text = at dawn
1	at	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	dawn	dawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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at twelve o'clock exactly, by the bell

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:782-pg2591-part58:e4:o3:1
# text = at twelve o'clock exactly, by the bell
1	at	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	o'clock	o'clock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	bell	bell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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when the cock crows

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:782-pg2591-part58:e4:o4:1
# text = when the cock crows
1	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	cock	cock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	crows	crow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nsubj	_	_
```

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

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