Exam question 4 · Perrault's Tales, The True History of Little Golden Hood,…

What was the approximate interval between the disappearance and the merchants' report?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: merchants · What happens: be, report · To what, where: approximate interval

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1553 «Perrault's Tales, The True History of Little Golden Hood, part 1: a clever girl, a sly wolf, and a hood that burns» 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 interval	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 interval	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 interval	det
4	approximate	approximate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 interval	amod
5	interval	interval	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	between	between	ADP	_	8 disappearance	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 disappearance	det
8	disappearance	disappearance	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 interval	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 report	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 merchants	det
11	merchants	merchant	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 report	nmod:poss
12	'	's	PART	_	11 merchants	case
13	report	report	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 disappearance	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 interval	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the approximate interval				between the disappearance and the merchants's report	tree rules
2	report		the merchants						nom report «communication transitive»: poss=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

roughly one hundred and fifty years after the children were lost

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	roughly	roughly	ADV	_	3 hundred	advmod
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 hundred	compound
3	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 years	nummod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 fifty	cc
5	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 hundred	conj
6	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 lost	nsubj:pass
7	after	after	ADP	_	9 children	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 children	det
9	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 years	nmod
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 lost	aux:pass
11	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past · passive		hundred years after the children					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

Option 2

more than one hundred and fifty years after the piper led them away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	4 hundred	advmod
2	than	than	ADP	_	1 more	fixed
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 hundred	compound
4	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 years	nummod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 fifty	cc
6	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 hundred	conj
7	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 led	nsubj
8	after	after	ADP	_	10 piper	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 piper	det
10	piper	piper	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 years	nmod
11	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 led	obj
13	away	away	ADV	_	11 led	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lead away	past	hundred years after the piper	them = they				away property	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 3

one hundred and forty years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hundred	compound
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 years	nummod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 forty	cc
4	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hundred	conj
5	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

one hundred and fifty years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hundred	compound
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 years	nummod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 fifty	cc
4	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hundred	conj
5	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

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