Exam question 3 · Fairy Book, The Lion Fairy, part 45: the queen is taken to…

Which of the following correctly states the number of frogs summoned by the frog's cry?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: frog · What happens: follow, state, summon, cry · To what, where: number, frogs

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1179 «Fairy Book, The Lion Fairy, part 45: the queen is taken to a gloomy palace, and frogs help her make a bee-sting pasty and build a cabin» 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 states	nsubj
2	of	of	SCONJ	_	6 states	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 states	det
4	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 states	nsubj
5	correctly	correctly	ADV	_	6 states	advmod
6	states	state	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 number	det
8	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 states	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 frogs	case
10	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 number	nmod
11	summoned	summon	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 frogs	acl
12	by	by	ADP	_	16 cry	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 frog	det
14	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 cry	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 frog	case
16	cry	cry	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 summoned	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 states	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	state speech: other	present		the number of frogs	correctly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent number=Topic
3	summon	participle		frogs not said here	by the frog's cry	vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	cry		the frog			nom cry «communication intransitive»: poss=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

Four thousand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Four	list

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

Option 2

Six

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Six thousand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 thousand	nummod
2	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 4

Sixty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sixty	sixty	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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