Exam question 3 · pg3454, The Wonderful Tune: Maurice Connor's magic pipes s…
What quantity of whisky did Maurice ingest in a single draught?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: quantity · What happens: ingest · To what, where: single draught
This is exam question 3 of lesson 1304 «pg3454, The Wonderful Tune: Maurice Connor's magic pipes set fish, feet and folk dancing» 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 | DET | PronType=Int | 2 quantity | det |
| 2 | quantity | quantity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ingest | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 whisky | case |
| 4 | whisky | whisky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 quantity | nmod |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 ingest | aux |
| 6 | Maurice | Maurice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 ingest | nsubj |
| 7 | ingest | ingest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 draught | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 draught | det |
| 10 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 draught | amod |
| 11 | draught | draught | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ingest | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 ingest | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ingest | past · do-support | what quantity of whisky | a single draught | vn absorb-39.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Goal |
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
An entire bottle
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 bottle | det |
| 2 | entire | entire | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 bottle | amod |
| 3 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Half a glass
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 3 glass | det:predet |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 glass | det |
| 3 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A cup
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 cup | det |
| 2 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Two large glasses
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 glasses | nummod |
| 2 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 glasses | amod |
| 3 | glasses | glass | 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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