Exam question 2 · Tales from the Fjeld, King Lindorm, part 55: the forged le…

What number of livestock did the faithful retainer incinerate in substitution for the princes?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: number, faithful retainer · What happens: do, incinerate · To what, where: substitution

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1666 «Tales from the Fjeld, King Lindorm, part 55: the forged letters and the flight to the hut» 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	PRON	PronType=Int	5 did	obj
2	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 livestock	case
4	livestock	livestock	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 number	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 retainer	det
7	faithful	faithful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 retainer	amod
8	retainer	retainer	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 incinerate	nsubj
9	incinerate	incinerate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 did	parataxis
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 substitution	case
11	substitution	substitution	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 incinerate	obl
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 princes	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 princes	det
14	princes	prince	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 incinerate	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	number of livestock						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
2	incinerate	present	the faithful retainer			substitution		for the princes	vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent

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

Three pigs and a cow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 pigs	nummod
2	pigs	pig	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 cow	cc
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 cow	det
5	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pigs	conj

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

Option 2

Two goats and one kid

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 goats	nummod
2	goats	goat	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 kid	cc
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 kid	nummod
5	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 goats	conj

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

One sheep and two lambs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 sheep	nummod
2	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 lambs	cc
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 lambs	nummod
5	lambs	lamb	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sheep	conj

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

Option 4

One lamb

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 lamb	nummod
2	lamb	lamb	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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