Exam question 4 · Popular Tales, The Master Thief, part 18: the Priest is tr…

What was the final sum of money given by the Governor to the thief?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be, give · To what, where: final sum, money, thief

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1521 «Popular Tales, The Master Thief, part 18: the Priest is tricked into a sack and the Governor's horses are stolen» 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	5 sum	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sum	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sum	det
4	final	final	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sum	amod
5	sum	sum	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 money	case
7	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sum	nmod
8	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 money	acl
9	by	by	ADP	_	11 Governor	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Governor	det
11	Governor	Governor	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 given	obl:agent
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 thief	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 thief	det
14	thief	thief	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 given	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 sum	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the final sum				of money	tree rules
2	give	participle		money not said here	the thief				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to thief=Recipient

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 · ✓ the right answer

a hundred dollars

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	3 dollars	nummod
3	dollars	dollar	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

two hundred pounds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hundred	compound
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 pounds	nummod
3	pounds	pound	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

a thousand dollars

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 thousand	det
2	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 dollars	nummod
3	dollars	dollar	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

one dollar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 dollar	nummod
2	dollar	dollar	NOUN	Number=Sing	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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