Exam question 2 · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lady of the Fountain, part 49: Kyn…

What was the number of damsels observed by Kynon at the window of the castle?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: number · What happens: be, observe · To what, where: damsels, window

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1324 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lady of the Fountain, part 49: Kynon meets the black giant and the fountain storm» 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	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 number	det
4	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 damsels	case
6	damsels	damsel	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 number	nmod
7	observed	observe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 damsels	acl
8	by	by	ADP	_	9 Kynon	case
9	Kynon	Kynon	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 observed	obl
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 window	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 window	det
12	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 observed	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 castle	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 castle	det
15	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 window	nmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the number of damsels						tree rules
2	observe	participle		damsels not said here		the window of the castle		by Kynon	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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

Seven

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 2

Twelve

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 3

Thirty and four

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 four	cc
3	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Thirty	conj

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Four and twenty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 twenty	cc
3	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Four	conj

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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