Exam question 4 · Popular Tales from the Norse, Dapplegrim, part 2: the yout…

What quantity of iron did the youth request for the shoeing of Dapplegrim?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: quantity · What happens: do · To what, where: youth request

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1560 «Popular Tales from the Norse, Dapplegrim, part 2: the youth wins a huge dappled horse and rides to the King's palace» 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 quantity	det
2	quantity	quantity	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 iron	case
4	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 quantity	nmod
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 request	det
7	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 request	compound
8	request	request	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	obj
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 shoeing	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 shoeing	det
11	shoeing	shoeing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 Dapplegrim	case
13	Dapplegrim	Dapplegrim	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 shoeing	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	what quantity of iron	the youth request				for the shoeing of Dapplegrim	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent request=Eventuality

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

Ten pounds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 pounds	nummod
2	pounds	pound	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Iron

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Eight pounds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 pounds	nummod
2	pounds	pound	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

Twelve pounds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 pounds	nummod
2	pounds	pound	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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