Exam question 3 · Household Tales, The Girl at the Brook, part 73: the broth…

Which measure of length was used to describe the stepsister's nose?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: use, describe, measure · To what, where: measure, nose, length

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1576 «Household Tales, The Girl at the Brook, part 73: the brother fetches his sister, and they set sail with the stepmother» 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	DET	PronType=Int	2 measure	det
2	measure	measure	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 used	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 length	case
4	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 measure	nmod
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 used	aux:pass
6	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 describe	mark
8	describe	describe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 used	xcomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 stepsister	det
10	stepsister	stepsister	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 nose	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 stepsister	case
12	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 describe	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 used	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	roles by
1	use	past · passive	which measure of length	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Theme clause=Eventuality
2	describe	to-infinitive	the stepsister's nose	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent nose=Theme
3	measure		length	nom measure «act transitive»: of=patient

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

Measured in ells and yards

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Measured	measure	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 ells	case
3	ells	ell	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Measured	obl
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 yards	cc
5	yards	yard	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 ells	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	measure	participle				ells and yards			vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Ells

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ells	ell	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

Long ells of cloth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 ells	amod
2	ells	ell	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 cloth	case
4	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ells	nmod

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Yards

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yards	yard	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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