Exam question 3 · pg640 Tales, The Youngest Brother and the Witch: he kills…

State the number of drops of the restorative liquid which the youth required before he was able to raise the sword.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, restorative liquid, he · What happens: state, youth, require, be, raise · To what, where: number, youth, sword

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1708 «pg640 Tales, The Youngest Brother and the Witch: he kills the witch, saves the children and wins his bride» 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	State	state	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 number	det
3	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 State	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 drops	case
5	drops	drop	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 number	nmod
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 liquid	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 liquid	det
8	restorative	restorative	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 liquid	amod
9	liquid	liquid	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 drops	nmod
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 youth	nsubj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 youth	det
12	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 liquid	nmod
13	required	require	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 youth	acl
14	before	before	SCONJ	_	17 able	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 able	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 able	cop
17	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 required	xcomp
18	to	to	PART	_	19 raise	mark
19	raise	raise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 able	xcomp
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 sword	det
21	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 raise	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 State	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	state speech: other	imperative	you not said here	the number of drops of the restorative liquid		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent number=Topic
2	youth		the restorative liquid			tree rules
3	require	participle		the youth not said here		vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme
4	is	past	he		able property	tree rules
5	raise	to-infinitive	he not said here	the sword		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=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 · ← Mova's choice

One

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Three

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 3

Two

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 4

Four

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Four	four	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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