Exam question 2 · Tales of the Punjab, Nur Mahomed and the Princess, part 56…
What was the approximate distance between the palace and the distant province?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: approximate distance
This is exam question 2 of lesson 1255 «Tales of the Punjab, Nur Mahomed and the Princess, part 56: the princess swaps a letter and a wedding is ordered» 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 distance | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 distance | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 distance | det |
| 4 | approximate | approximate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 distance | amod |
| 5 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | between | between | ADP | _ | 8 palace | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 palace | det |
| 8 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 distance | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 province | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 province | det |
| 11 | distant | distant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 province | amod |
| 12 | province | province | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 palace | conj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 distance | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the approximate distance | between the palace and the distant province | 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 · ← Mova's choice
Six or seven days' march
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 days | nummod |
| 2 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 3 seven | cc |
| 3 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 1 Six | conj |
| 4 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 march | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 4 days | case |
| 6 | march | march | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Ten days' journey across the desert and mountains
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 days | nummod |
| 2 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 journey | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 2 days | case |
| 4 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | across | across | ADP | _ | 7 desert | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 desert | det |
| 7 | desert | desert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 journey | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 mountains | cc |
| 9 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 desert | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | journey | Ten days | the desert and mountains | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent across=place |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Four or five days' journey
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 days | nummod |
| 2 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 3 five | cc |
| 3 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 1 Four | conj |
| 4 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 journey | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 4 days | case |
| 6 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | journey | Four days | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 4
Several weeks' hard travel by road
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 weeks | amod |
| 2 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 travel | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 2 weeks | case |
| 4 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 travel | amod |
| 5 | travel | travel | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 road | case |
| 7 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 travel | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | travel | Several weeks | nom travel «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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