Exam question 4 · The Violet Fairy Book, How the Dragon Was Tricked, part 2:…

Which period of time did the king grant the youth to accomplish the final task?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: period, king · What happens: do, grant, accomplish · To what, where: youth, final task

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1613 «The Violet Fairy Book, How the Dragon Was Tricked, part 2: a clever youth tricks a king, a shepherd and a dragon» 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 period	det
2	period	period	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 time	case
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 period	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	7 king	det
7	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 grant	nsubj
8	grant	grant	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 did	parataxis
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 youth	det
10	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 grant	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 accomplish	mark
12	accomplish	accomplish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 grant	advcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 task	det
14	final	final	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 task	amod
15	task	task	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 accomplish	obj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past	which period of time		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	grant	present	the king	the youth	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent youth=Theme
3	accomplish	to-infinitive	the king not said here	the final task	vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent task=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 · ← Mova's choice

A year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 year	det
2	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Two years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 years	nummod
2	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

Three years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 years	nummod
2	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

Five months

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 months	nummod
2	months	month	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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