Exam question 3 · Arabian Nights, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, part 19: t…

Specify the number of windows in the hall of the palace as described in the text.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: specify, describe · To what, where: number, hall, text

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1432 «Arabian Nights, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, part 19: the magician steals the lamp and Aladdin is nearly beheaded» 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	Specify	specify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 number	det
3	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Specify	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 windows	case
5	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 number	nmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 hall	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hall	det
8	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Specify	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 palace	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 palace	det
11	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hall	nmod
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 described	mark
13	described	describe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Specify	advcl
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 text	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 text	det
16	text	text	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 described	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Specify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	specify	imperative	you not said here	the number of windows		the hall of the palace			vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent number=Theme
2	describe	participle	you not said here			the text			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: 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

six

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	six	six	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

twenty-two

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 two	punct
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 twenty	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	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 twenty	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 twenty	cc
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 and	punct
5	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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