Exam question 3 · Topelius Tales, Little Lasse, part 24: Lasse dreams of sai…
Which sum of money did the father of Moti bestow upon his son at the moment of departure?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sum, father · What happens: do, bestow, sum · To what, where: money
This is exam question 3 of lesson 1299 «Topelius Tales, Little Lasse, part 24: Lasse dreams of sailing the world, wakes in his boat, and Moti is robbed at an inn» 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 sum | det |
| 2 | sum | sum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 did | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 money | case |
| 4 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sum | nmod |
| 5 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 father | det |
| 7 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bestow | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Moti | case |
| 9 | Moti | Moti | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 father | nmod |
| 10 | bestow | bestow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 did | parataxis |
| 11 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 13 son | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 son | nmod:poss |
| 13 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bestow | obl |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 moment | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 moment | det |
| 16 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bestow | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 departure | case |
| 18 | departure | departure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 moment | nmod |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | which sum of money | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | bestow | present | the father of Moti | moment | upon father's son | tree rules | |||
| 3 | sum | money | nom sum «possession transitive»: of=patient |
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
twenty gold coins
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 coins | nummod |
| 2 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 coins | compound |
| 3 | coins | coin | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
a horse
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 horse | det |
| 2 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
fifty silver pieces wrapped in a cloth bag
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fifty | fifty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 pieces | nummod |
| 2 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pieces | compound |
| 3 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | wrapped | wrap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 pieces | acl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 bag | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 bag | det |
| 7 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bag | compound |
| 8 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wrapped | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wrap | participle | fifty silver pieces not said here | a cloth bag | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in bag=Destination |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
fifty silver pieces
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fifty | fifty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 pieces | nummod |
| 2 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pieces | compound |
| 3 | pieces | piece | 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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