Exam question 4 · Italian Popular Tales, Ciccu: the veil, the ring and the o…
What sum was agreed upon for the sale of the house?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: agree · To what, where: sum
This is exam question 4 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 sum | det |
| 2 | sum | sum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 agreed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 agreed | aux:pass |
| 4 | agreed | agree | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 8 sale | case |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 sale | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sale | det |
| 8 | sale | sale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 agreed | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 house | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 house | det |
| 11 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sale | nmod |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 agreed | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | past · passive | what sum | upon the sale of the house | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Topic |
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
ten coins
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 coins | nummod |
| 2 | coins | coin | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
a large sum paid over a week
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 sum | det |
| 2 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sum | amod |
| 3 | sum | sum | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | paid | pay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 sum | acl |
| 5 | over | over | ADP | _ | 7 week | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 week | det |
| 7 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 paid | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pay | participle | a large sum not said here | week | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
a small sum
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 sum | det |
| 2 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sum | amod |
| 3 | sum | sum | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
a large sum paid in eight days
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 sum | det |
| 2 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sum | amod |
| 3 | sum | sum | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | paid | pay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 sum | acl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 days | case |
| 6 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 days | nummod |
| 7 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 paid | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pay | participle | a large sum not said here | day | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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