Exam question 4 · Perrault's Tales, Little Thumb, part 13: lost again, birds…

State the number of children belonging to the faggot-maker and his wife, as recorded in the opening of the tale.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, children · What happens: state, belong, record · To what, where: number, opening

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1088 «Perrault's Tales, Little Thumb, part 13: lost again, birds eat the bread, a storm in the night» 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	_	5 children	case
5	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 number	nmod
6	belonging	belong	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 children	acl
7	to	to	ADP	_	11 maker	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 maker	det
9	faggot	faggot	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 maker	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 faggot	punct
11	maker	maker	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 belonging	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 wife	cc
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 wife	nmod:poss
14	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 maker	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 recorded	punct
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 recorded	mark
17	recorded	record	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 State	parataxis
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 opening	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 opening	det
20	opening	opening	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 recorded	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 tale	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 tale	det
23	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 opening	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 State	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	state speech: other	imperative	you not said here	the number of children			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent number=Topic
2	belong	gerund	children not said here			to the faggot maker and his wife	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
3	record	participle			the opening of the tale		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in opening=Destination

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

Seven, including two daughters

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 daughters	punct
3	including	include	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 daughters	case
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 daughters	nummod
5	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Seven	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	include	gerund							vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Two boys

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 boys	nummod
2	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Seven, all of them sons

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 sons	punct
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 sons	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 all	nmod
6	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Seven	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	son		all						tree rules

Option 4

Six, all of them sons

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 sons	punct
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 sons	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 all	nmod
6	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Six	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	son		all						tree rules

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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