Exam question 2 · Popular Tales from the Norse, Esben and the Witch, part 47…

What quantity of salt did Esben introduce into the witch's porridge pot?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: quantity · What happens: introduce · To what, where: porridge pot

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1658 «Popular Tales from the Norse, Esben and the Witch, part 47: Esben steals the witch's lamp and is sent for a coverlet» 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	7 introduce	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 salt	case
4	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 quantity	nmod
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 introduce	aux
6	Esben	Esben	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 introduce	nsubj
7	introduce	introduce	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	into	into	ADP	_	13 pot	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 witch	det
10	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 pot	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 witch	case
12	porridge	porridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 pot	compound
13	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 introduce	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 introduce	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	introduce	past · do-support	what quantity of salt			the witch's porridge pot			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice

a cup

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

a handful

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

a pinch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

a bushel

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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