Exam question 2 · Arabian Nights, Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Peri Banou, par…

What price, in purses, was demanded for the ivory perspective glass?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: price, demand · To what, where: price

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1494 «Arabian Nights, Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Peri Banou, part 81: the brothers' gifts save the Princess» 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	2 price	nsubj
2	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 demanded	nsubj:pass
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 purses	punct
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 purses	case
5	purses	purse	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 price	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 price	punct
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 demanded	aux:pass
8	demanded	demand	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	for	for	ADP	_	13 glass	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 glass	det
11	ivory	ivory	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 glass	amod
12	perspective	perspective	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 glass	compound
13	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 demanded	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 demanded	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	price								tree rules
2	demand speech: request	past · passive		price and purses				for the ivory perspective glass	vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Precondition

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

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 2

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 3 · ✓ the right answer

Thirty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Three hundred purses

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hundred	compound
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 purses	nummod
3	purses	purse	NOUN	Number=Plur	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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