Exam question 3 · Italian Popular Tales, Ciccu: the veil, the ring and the o…
What duration was stipulated for Don Giovanni's abstention from washing?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: abstention · What happens: stipulate, wash · To what, where: duration
This is exam question 3 of lesson 1675 «Italian Popular Tales, Ciccu: the veil, the ring and the oven» 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 duration | det |
| 2 | duration | duration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stipulated | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stipulated | aux:pass |
| 4 | stipulated | stipulate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 abstention | case |
| 6 | Don | Don | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 abstention | nmod:poss |
| 7 | Giovanni | Giovanni | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Don | flat |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 Don | case |
| 9 | abstention | abstention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stipulated | obl |
| 10 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 11 washing | mark |
| 11 | washing | wash | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 abstention | acl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 stipulated | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stipulate | past · passive | what duration | for Don's abstention | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | wash | gerund | Don's abstention not said here | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: 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 years, three months, three days, and three hours
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 years | nummod |
| 2 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 months | punct |
| 4 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 months | nummod |
| 5 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 years | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 days | punct |
| 7 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 days | nummod |
| 8 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 years | appos |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 hours | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 hours | cc |
| 11 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 hours | nummod |
| 12 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 years | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
four years, four months, and four days
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 years | nummod |
| 2 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 months | punct |
| 4 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 months | nummod |
| 5 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 years | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 days | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 days | cc |
| 8 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 days | nummod |
| 9 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 years | appos |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
seven years, seven months, and seven days of waiting
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 years | nummod |
| 2 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 months | punct |
| 4 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 months | nummod |
| 5 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 years | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 days | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 days | cc |
| 8 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 days | nummod |
| 9 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 years | appos |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 waiting | case |
| 11 | waiting | waiting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 days | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
three years, three months, and three days
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 years | nummod |
| 2 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 months | punct |
| 4 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 months | nummod |
| 5 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 years | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 days | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 days | cc |
| 8 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 days | nummod |
| 9 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 years | appos |
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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