Exam question 3 · Finnish Tales, Ahti's Cow, part 38: Maie begs the sea king…

What is the approximate number of herring prepared for the students' meal?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: approximate number · What happens: be, prepare · To what, where: herring

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1313 «Finnish Tales, Ahti's Cow, part 38: Maie begs the sea king for a cow and they break Sunday rest» 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	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 number	det
4	approximate	approximate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 number	amod
5	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 herring	case
7	herring	herring	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 number	nmod
8	prepared	prepare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 herring	acl
9	for	for	ADP	_	13 meal	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 students	det
11	students	student	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 meal	nmod:poss
12	'	's	PART	_	11 students	case
13	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 prepared	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the approximate number of herring						tree rules
2	prepare	participle		herring not said here				for the students's meal	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for meal=Beneficiary

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

Around fifty herring from the barrel

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Around	around	ADV	_	2 fifty	advmod
2	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 herring	nummod
3	herring	herring	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 barrel	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 barrel	det
6	barrel	barrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 herring	nmod

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

Option 2

Ten

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Fifty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 4

Twenty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Twenty	twenty	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.

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