Exam question 4 · World Tales, How Geirald The Coward Was Punished, part 1:…

Which of the following accurately identifies the number of robbers who were struck down by the falling stones?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: falling stones · What happens: follow, identify, strike down, fall · To what, where: number, robbers

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1219 «World Tales, How Geirald The Coward Was Punished, part 1: two friends ride off, Rosald wins the fight, and Geirald takes the glory» 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 identifies	nsubj
2	of	of	SCONJ	_	6 identifies	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 identifies	det
4	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 identifies	nsubj
5	accurately	accurately	ADV	_	6 identifies	advmod
6	identifies	identify	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 identifies	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 robbers	case
10	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 number	nmod
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 struck	nsubj
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 struck	aux:pass
13	struck	strike	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 robbers	acl:relcl
14	down	down	ADP	_	13 struck	compound:prt
15	by	by	ADP	_	18 stones	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 stones	det
17	falling	fall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 stones	amod
18	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 struck	obl
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 identifies	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	identify	present		the number of robbers	accurately property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent number=Theme
3	strike down	past · passive	the falling stones	robbers		vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent subject=Instrument
4	fall	gerund				vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

roughly a third of the band

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	roughly	roughly	ADV	_	3 third	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 third	det
3	third	third	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 band	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 band	det
6	band	band	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 third	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

approximately half of the band

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	approximately	approximately	ADV	_	2 half	advmod
2	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 band	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 band	det
5	band	band	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 half	nmod

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

Option 3

approximately half of the band, along with their horses

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	approximately	approximately	ADV	_	2 half	advmod
2	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 band	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 band	det
5	band	band	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 half	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 horses	punct
7	along	along	ADP	_	10 horses	case
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 horses	case
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 horses	nmod:poss
10	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 half	conj

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

approximately half their horses

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	approximately	approximately	ADV	_	2 half	advmod
2	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	4 horses	det:predet
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 horses	nmod:poss
4	horses	horse	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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