Exam question 4 · Wonder Tales from Many Lands, The Story of Ciccu, part 61:…

What sum did Ciccu pay the innkeeper for the meal?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sum · What happens: pay · To what, where: innkeeper

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1672 «Wonder Tales from Many Lands, The Story of Ciccu, part 61: the princess begs Ciccu's purse for a copy» 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 sum	det
2	sum	sum	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pay	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 pay	aux
4	Ciccu	Ciccu	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 pay	nsubj
5	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 innkeeper	det
7	innkeeper	innkeeper	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pay	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 meal	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 meal	det
10	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pay	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 pay	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	past · do-support	what sum	the innkeeper				for the meal	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent innkeeper=Asset for meal=Theme

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

Six florins, taken from the purse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 florins	nummod
2	florins	florin	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 taken	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 florins	punct
4	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 purse	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 purse	det
7	purse	purse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 taken	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	participle	Six florins			the purse			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from purse=Initial_Location

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Twelve florins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Twelve	twelve	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.

Option 3

Eight florins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eight	eight	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.

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Six florins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Six	six	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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