Exam question 4 · Tales from Many Lands, The One-Handed Girl, part 1: after…
What number of pumpkins did the sister report remaining when the slave arrived?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: number, sister report, slave · What happens: do, remain, arrive · To what, where: sister report
This is exam question 4 of lesson 1308 «Tales from Many Lands, The One-Handed Girl, part 1: after the parents die, a sister's pot and pumpkins bring her luck until her envious brother steals the pot» 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 did | obj |
| 2 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 did | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 pumpkins | case |
| 4 | pumpkins | pumpkin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 number | 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 | 8 report | det |
| 7 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 report | compound |
| 8 | report | report | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 did | obj |
| 9 | remaining | remain | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 report | acl |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 arrived | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 slave | det |
| 12 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 arrived | nsubj |
| 13 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 remaining | ccomp |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | number of pumpkins | the sister report | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | remain | gerund | the sister report not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | arrive | participle | the slave | vn escape-51.1-1 «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
Five
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Four pumpkins, as the sister had counted them
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 pumpkins | nummod |
| 2 | pumpkins | pumpkin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 counted | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 counted | punct |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 counted | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sister | det |
| 6 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 counted | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 counted | aux |
| 8 | counted | count | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 counted | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | count | past · perfect · passive | Four pumpkins | tree rules |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Four pumpkins remained, after the slave had taken some
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 pumpkins | nummod |
| 2 | pumpkins | pumpkin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 remained | nsubj |
| 3 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 taken | punct |
| 5 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 9 taken | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 slave | det |
| 7 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 taken | aux |
| 9 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 remained | conj |
| 10 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 taken | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain | past | Four pumpkins | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | take | past · perfect · passive | the slave | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme some=Destination |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Four
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1308-pg3454-part33/e4/