Exam question 3 · Perrault, Little Thumb: Little Thumb takes the Ogre's boot…

What was the distance, as stated in the narrative, to the army whose battle the King awaited?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: battle · What happens: be, state, await · To what, where: distance, narrative

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1090 «Perrault, Little Thumb: Little Thumb takes the Ogre's boots and gold and becomes rich» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 distance	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 distance	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 distance	det
4	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 stated	punct
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 stated	mark
7	stated	state	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 distance	acl:relcl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 narrative	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 narrative	det
10	narrative	narrative	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stated	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 army	punct
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 army	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 army	det
14	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 distance	conj
15	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	16 battle	nmod:poss
16	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 awaited	nsubj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 King	det
18	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 battle	appos
19	awaited	await	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 army	acl:relcl
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 distance	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	past		the distance and the army		tree rules
2	state speech: other	participle		the distance and the army not said here	the narrative	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	await	participle	battle			tree rules

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

Ten leagues

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Two hundred leagues

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hundred	compound
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 leagues	nummod
3	leagues	league	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

A hundred leagues

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 hundred	det
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 leagues	nummod
3	leagues	league	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

Three hundred leagues

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hundred	compound
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 leagues	nummod
3	leagues	league	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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