Exam question 1 · Popular Tales from the Norse, The Hill-Man: Hans becomes a…

Which price did the old man first offer for the bridle of the horse?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: price · What happens: do · To what, where: old man

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1199 «Popular Tales from the Norse, The Hill-Man: Hans becomes a ring, the princess is walled up, and the hill-man dies under a stone» 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	DET	PronType=Int	2 price	det
2	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 man	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 man	amod
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
7	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 offer	advmod
8	offer	offer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obl
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 bridle	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bridle	det
11	bridle	bridle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 horse	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 horse	det
14	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bridle	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	which price	the old man				for the bridle of the horse; offer obl	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Eventuality

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 · ✓ the right answer

One hundred dollars

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hundred	compound
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 dollars	nummod
3	dollars	dollar	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

Fifty silver dollars

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 dollars	nummod
2	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dollars	compound
3	dollars	dollar	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

Ten dollars

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

Two coins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 coins	nummod
2	coins	coin	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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