Exam question 1 · Andersen's Tales, The Travelling Companion, part 218: John…

With reference to the narrative, state the sum which John offered in exchange for the decent burial of the deceased.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, John · What happens: state, offer, decease · To what, where: sum, exchange, decent burial

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1007 «Andersen's Tales, The Travelling Companion, part 218: John pays for a dead man's rest, then the salve mends a broken doll» 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	With	with	ADP	_	2 reference	case
2	reference	reference	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 state	obl
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 narrative	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 narrative	det
5	narrative	narrative	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reference	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 reference	punct
7	state	state	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sum	det
9	sum	sum	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 state	obj
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 offered	obj
11	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 offered	nsubj
12	offered	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 sum	acl:relcl
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 exchange	case
14	exchange	exchange	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 offered	obl
15	for	for	ADP	_	18 burial	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 burial	det
17	decent	decent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 burial	amod
18	burial	burial	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 offered	obl
19	of	of	SCONJ	_	21 deceased	mark
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 deceased	det
21	deceased	decease	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 burial	acl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 state	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	state speech: other	imperative	you not said here	the sum		with reference to the narrative	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sum=Topic
2	offer	past	John	the sum	exchange	for the decent burial goal	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent which=Theme for burial=Goal
3	decease	participle		the decent burial not said here			vn die-42.4 «NP V»: agent=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 · ✓ the right answer

fifty dollars

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 dollars	nummod
2	dollars	dollar	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

ten dollars

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 dollars	nummod
2	dollars	dollar	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

fifty dollars in gold coin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 dollars	nummod
2	dollars	dollar	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 coin	case
4	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 coin	compound
5	coin	coin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dollars	nmod

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

Option 4

five dollars

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 dollars	nummod
2	dollars	dollar	NOUN	Number=Plur	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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