Exam question 4 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Youth Who Set Out to Learn What F…
What sum of money does the father bestow upon his youngest son before the youth sets forth?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sum, youth · What happens: bestow, set, sum · To what, where: money
This is exam question 4 of lesson 1434 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, part 21: the youth warms seven dead men and hangs them back up» 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 sum | det |
| 2 | sum | sum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bestow | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 money | case |
| 4 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sum | nmod |
| 5 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 bestow | aux |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 father | det |
| 7 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bestow | nsubj |
| 8 | bestow | bestow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 12 son | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 son | nmod:poss |
| 11 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 12 son | amod |
| 12 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bestow | obl |
| 13 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 16 sets | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 youth | det |
| 15 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sets | nsubj |
| 16 | sets | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 bestow | advcl |
| 17 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 16 sets | advmod |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 bestow | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bestow | present · do-support | what sum of money | upon father's youngest son | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | set | present | the youth | forth property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | sum | money | nom sum «possession transitive»: of=patient |
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
A hundred gold coins from the old chest
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 hundred | det |
| 2 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 coins | nummod |
| 3 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 coins | compound |
| 4 | coins | coin | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 chest | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 chest | det |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 chest | amod |
| 8 | chest | chest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 coins | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Fifty dollars
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fifty | fifty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 dollars | nummod |
| 2 | dollars | dollar | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A coin
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 coin | det |
| 2 | coin | coin | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Five hundred silver dollars and a horse
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 hundred | compound |
| 2 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 dollars | nummod |
| 3 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dollars | compound |
| 4 | dollars | dollar | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 horse | cc |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 horse | det |
| 7 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dollars | 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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