Test 5 · ★ · Russian Fairy Tales, The Heifer, part 21: the golden slipp…

so how many gold coins did he promise, innit?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: many gold coins · What happens: promise, innit

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1115 «Russian Fairy Tales, The Heifer, part 21: the golden slippers are left behind and the search begins» of the books course of Mova's primary school. 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	so	so	ADV	_	8 promise	advmod
2	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	3 many	advmod
3	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 coins	amod
4	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 coins	compound
5	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 promise	nsubj
6	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 promise	aux
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 promise	nsubj
8	promise	promise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 innit	punct
10	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 promise	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 promise	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	past · do-support	many gold coins						vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	innit	infinitive	many gold coins not said here						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

Half a kingdom's gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	5 gold	det:predet
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 kingdom	det
3	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gold	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 kingdom	case
5	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

A few coins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 coins	det
2	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 coins	amod
3	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

A bag of silver florins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bag	det
2	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 florins	case
4	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 florins	compound
5	florins	florin	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 bag	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A whole sack of ducats

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 sack	det
2	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sack	amod
3	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 ducats	case
5	ducats	ducat	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sack	nmod

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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