Exam question 3 · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Irishman and the Blue Mountains, p…

State the number of years for which the first old man reports having lived without the company of any human being apart from the Irishman.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, first old man · What happens: state, report, have, live, be · To what, where: number

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1736 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Irishman and the Blue Mountains, part 60: the Irishman learns from an Eagle where the Princess is» 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 years	case
5	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 number	nmod
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 which	case
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 reports	obl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 man	det
9	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	11 man	amod
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 man	amod
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 reports	nsubj
12	reports	report	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 years	parataxis
13	having	have	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 reports	ccomp
14	lived	live	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 having	xcomp
15	without	without	ADP	_	17 company	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 company	det
17	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 lived	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	25 Irishman	case
19	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	25 Irishman	det
20	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 Irishman	amod
21	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 Irishman	cop
22	apart	apart	ADV	_	25 Irishman	advmod
23	from	from	ADP	_	25 Irishman	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Irishman	det
25	Irishman	Irishman	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 company	nmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 State	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	state speech: other	imperative	you not said here	the number of years			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent number=Topic
2	report	present	the first old man		for years		vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	have	gerund	the first old man not said here				tree rules
4	live	participle	the first old man not said here			without the company	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is	gerund				of any human Irishman; apart property	tree rules

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 thousand years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 thousand	compound
2	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 years	nummod
3	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

Two hundred years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hundred	compound
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 years	nummod
3	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

Fifty years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 years	nummod
2	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Three hundred years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hundred	compound
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 years	nummod
3	years	year	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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