Exam question 1 · Italian Popular Tales, Master Joseph the Shoemaker, part 2…

Which of the following best describes the sum for which the robbers purchased the donkey from the shoemaker?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: robbers · What happens: follow, describe, purchase · To what, where: sum, donkey, shoemaker

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1639 «Italian Popular Tales, Master Joseph the Shoemaker, part 28: the robbers buy the donkey and the guitar and are fooled again» 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	6 describes	obj
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 best	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 best	det
4	following	follow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 best	case
5	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 describes	nmod
6	describes	describe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sum	det
8	sum	sum	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 describes	obj
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 which	case
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 purchased	obl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 robbers	det
12	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 purchased	nsubj
13	purchased	purchase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 sum	acl:relcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 donkey	det
15	donkey	donkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 purchased	obj
16	from	from	ADP	_	18 shoemaker	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 shoemaker	det
18	shoemaker	shoemaker	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 purchased	obl
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 describes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	describe	present		the sum		of the best	tree rules
3	purchase	past	the robbers	the donkey	the shoemaker	for the sum	vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent donkey=Theme for which=Asset

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

Five hundred florins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hundred	compound
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 florins	nummod
3	florins	florin	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Forty gold coins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 coins	nummod
2	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 coins	compound
3	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Fifty gold pieces

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 pieces	nummod
2	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pieces	compound
3	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

Ten florins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 florins	nummod
2	florins	florin	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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