Exam question 2 · Italian Tales, Ciccu, part 62: a beating, a fig trade and…

Which of the following correctly states the number of lashes the king ordered to be administered to Peppe upon discovery of the deception?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: king, lashes · What happens: follow, state, order, administer, discover · To what, where: number, lashes, Peppe, deception

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1673 «Italian Tales, Ciccu, part 62: a beating, a fig trade and a royal job» 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 states	nsubj
2	of	of	SCONJ	_	6 states	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 states	det
4	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 states	nsubj
5	correctly	correctly	ADV	_	6 states	advmod
6	states	state	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 number	det
8	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 states	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 lashes	case
10	lashes	lash	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 number	nmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 king	det
12	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 ordered	nsubj
13	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 lashes	acl:relcl
14	to	to	PART	_	16 administered	mark
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 administered	aux:pass
16	administered	administer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 ordered	xcomp
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 Peppe	case
18	Peppe	Peppe	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 administered	obl
19	upon	upon	ADP	_	20 discovery	case
20	discovery	discovery	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 administered	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 deception	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 deception	det
23	deception	deception	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 discovery	nmod
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 states	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	state speech: other	present		the number of lashes		correctly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent number=Topic
3	order	past	the king	lashes not said here			vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent lash=Recipient clause=Topic
4	administer not said to happen	to-infinitive · passive	lashes not said here		Peppe	upon discovery of the deception	vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: to peppe=Recipient
5	discover			the deception			nom discovery «act transitive»: of=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 · ✓ the right answer

Fifty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 2

Six

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 3

Ten

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 4

Twenty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	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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