Exam question 1 · Contes, The Pied Piper of Hamel, part 49: Drakestail becom…

Which of the following statements correctly identifies the sum that the piper demanded for each rat removed from the town of Hamel?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: piper · What happens: follow, identify, demand, remove · To what, where: sum, rat, town

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1552 «Contes, The Pied Piper of Hamel, part 49: Drakestail becomes king, and the piper clears Hamel of rats, then the children vanish» 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 identifies	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 statements	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 statements	det
4	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 statements	amod
5	statements	statement	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 identifies	obl
6	correctly	correctly	ADV	_	7 identifies	advmod
7	identifies	identify	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sum	det
9	sum	sum	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 identifies	obj
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 demanded	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 piper	det
12	piper	piper	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 demanded	nsubj
13	demanded	demand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 sum	acl
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 rat	case
15	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	16 rat	det
16	rat	rat	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 demanded	obl
17	removed	remove	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 rat	acl
18	from	from	ADP	_	20 town	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 town	det
20	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 removed	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 Hamel	case
22	Hamel	Hamel	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 town	nmod
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 identifies	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	identify	present		the sum		of the following statements; correctly property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent sum=Theme
3	demand speech: request	past	the piper	the sum not said here		for each rat	vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sum=Precondition
4	remove	participle		each rat not said here	the town of Hamel		vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from town=Source

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 · ✓ the right answer

A gros per head

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 gros	det
2	gros	gros	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	per	per	ADP	_	4 head	case
4	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gros	nmod

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

Option 2

Two gros per head

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 gros	nummod
2	gros	gro	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	per	per	ADP	_	4 head	case
4	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gros	nmod

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

A crown per head

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 crown	det
2	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	per	per	ADP	_	4 head	case
4	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 crown	nmod

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

Option 4

Per head

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Per	per	ADP	_	2 head	case
2	head	head	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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