Exam question 3 · Gods and Fighting Men, The Adventures of Mongan, part 38:…

Which quantity of cows was observed upon the lawn of Leinster?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: observe · To what, where: quantity

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1070 «Gods and Fighting Men, The Adventures of Mongan, part 38: Mongan is raised, avenges his father, and sees the white cows» 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 quantity	det
2	quantity	quantity	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 observed	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 cows	case
4	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 quantity	nmod
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 observed	aux:pass
6	observed	observe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	upon	upon	ADP	_	9 lawn	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 lawn	det
9	lawn	lawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 observed	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 Leinster	case
11	Leinster	Leinster	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 lawn	nmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 observed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	observe	past · passive		which quantity of cows				upon the lawn of Leinster	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic

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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

fifty cows upon the lawn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 cows	nummod
2	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	upon	upon	ADP	_	5 lawn	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 lawn	det
5	lawn	lawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cows	nmod

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

Option 3

sixty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

one hundred and fifty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hundred	compound
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 fifty	cc
4	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hundred	conj

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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