Exam question 2 · Andersen's Tales, The Will-o'-the-Wisp in the Town, part 2…

State the number of Will-o'-the-Wisps born at the christening feast in the marsh.

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: state, bear · To what, where: number, Wisps, christening feast

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1026 «Andersen's Tales, The Will-o'-the-Wisp in the Town, part 237: the Moor-woman shows the man her cupboard of poetry and tells him about the new Will-o'-the-Wisps born in the marsh» 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	State	state	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 number	det
3	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 State	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	12 Wisps	case
5	Will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 Wisps	aux
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 Wisps	punct
7	o	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	12 Wisps	case
8	'	'	PUNCT	_	12 Wisps	punct
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 Wisps	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Wisps	det
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 the	punct
12	Wisps	Wisp	PROPN	Number=Plur	3 number	nmod
13	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 Wisps	acl
14	at	at	ADP	_	17 feast	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 feast	det
16	christening	christening	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 feast	compound
17	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 born	obl
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 marsh	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 marsh	det
20	marsh	marsh	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 feast	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 State	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	state speech: other	imperative	you not said here	the number of the Wisps					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent number=Topic
2	bear	participle		the Wisps not said here		the christening feast in the marsh			vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer

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 · ✓ the right answer

Twelve

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 2

Thirteen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Thirteen	thirteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Thirty-six Will-o'-the-Wisps born at the feast

The tree, 10 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 six	punct
3	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Thirty	conj
4	Will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 Wisps	aux
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 Wisps	punct
6	o	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	11 Wisps	case
7	'	'	PUNCT	_	11 Wisps	punct
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 Wisps	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Wisps	det
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 the	punct
11	Wisps	Wisp	PROPN	Number=Plur	1 Thirty	appos
12	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 Wisps	acl
13	at	at	ADP	_	15 feast	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 feast	det
15	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 born	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bear	participle		the Wisps not said here		the feast			vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

Twenty-four Will-o'-the-Wisps born at the feast

The tree, 10 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 four	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Twenty	punct
3	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
4	Will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 Wisps	aux
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 Wisps	punct
6	o	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	11 Wisps	case
7	'	'	PUNCT	_	11 Wisps	punct
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 Wisps	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Wisps	det
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 the	punct
11	Wisps	Wisp	PROPN	Number=Plur	3 four	appos
12	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 Wisps	acl
13	at	at	ADP	_	15 feast	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 feast	det
15	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 born	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bear	participle		the Wisps not said here		the feast			vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer

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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