Exam question 3 · Russian Folk-Tales, Tremsin and the Bird Zhar, part 15: th…

What quantity of hides was the horse instructed to procure?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: quantity · What happens: be, instruct, procure · To what, where: horse

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1109 «Russian Folk-Tales, Tremsin and the Bird Zhar, part 15: the impossible sea task» 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	DET	PronType=Int	2 quantity	det
2	quantity	quantity	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 horse	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 hides	case
4	hides	hide	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 quantity	nmod
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 horse	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 horse	det
7	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	instructed	instruct	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 horse	acl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 procure	mark
10	procure	procure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 instructed	xcomp
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 horse	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	past	what quantity of hides	the horse	tree rules
2	instruct speech: other	participle		the horse not said here	vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	procure	to-infinitive			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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

twenty hides of fine leather from the market

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hides	nummod
2	hides	hide	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 leather	case
4	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 leather	amod
5	leather	leather	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hides	nmod
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 market	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 market	det
8	market	market	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hides	nmod

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

Option 2

ten hides

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

twenty hides

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hides	nummod
2	hides	hide	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

two hides

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hides	nummod
2	hides	hide	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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