Exam question 3 · Old Africa, Makoma, part 2: Makoma beats giants and the ri…

Specify the number of heads possessed by the being named Sakatirina, as stated in the narrative.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: specify, possess, name, state · To what, where: number, heads, narrative

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1136 «Old Africa, Makoma, part 2: Makoma beats giants and the river spirit, then is sent to find Sakatirina» 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	Specify	specify	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 Specify	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 heads	case
5	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 number	nmod
6	possessed	possess	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 heads	acl
7	by	by	SCONJ	_	10 named	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 named	det
9	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 named	aux:pass
10	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 possessed	advcl
11	Sakatirina	Sakatirina	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 named	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 stated	punct
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 stated	mark
14	stated	state	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 named	conj
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 narrative	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 narrative	det
17	narrative	narrative	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 stated	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Specify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	specify	imperative	you not said here	the number of heads		vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent number=Theme
2	possess	participle		heads not said here		vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot
3	name	gerund · passive				vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»
4	state speech: other	participle			the narrative	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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

two

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

five

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

three

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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