Exam question 3 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Tinder-Box, part 61: a Soldier…

State the approximate number of lamps illuminating the underground hall, as described in the narrative.

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: lamps · What happens: illuminate, describe · To what, where: underground hall, narrative

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1737 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Tinder-Box, part 61: a Soldier gets rich from three dogs and a witch's trick» 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	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 number	nsubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 number	det
3	approximate	approximate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 number	amod
4	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 lamps	case
6	lamps	lamp	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 number	nmod
7	illuminating	illuminate	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 lamps	acl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 hall	det
9	underground	underground	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 hall	amod
10	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 illuminating	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 described	punct
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 described	mark
13	described	describe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 illuminating	advcl
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 narrative	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 narrative	det
16	narrative	narrative	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 described	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 number	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	illuminate	gerund	lamps not said here	the underground hall					vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hall=Destination
2	describe	participle	lamps not said here			the narrative			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: 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

Many lamps, perhaps ten.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 lamps	amod
2	lamps	lamp	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 ten	punct
4	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	5 ten	advmod
5	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 lamps	appos
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 lamps	punct

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

Option 2

Almost a hundred lamps were burning there.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Almost	almost	ADV	_	3 hundred	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 hundred	det
3	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 lamps	nummod
4	lamps	lamp	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 burning	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 burning	aux
6	burning	burn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 burning	advmod
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 burning	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	past · progressive	hundred lamps			there			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

More than three hundred lamps were burning in the hall.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	More	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	4 hundred	advmod
2	than	than	ADP	_	1 More	fixed
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 hundred	compound
4	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 lamps	nummod
5	lamps	lamp	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 burning	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 burning	aux
7	burning	burn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 hall	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 hall	det
10	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 burning	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 burning	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	past · progressive	hundred lamps			the hall			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hall=Location

Option 4

Around two hundred lamps were lit in the hall.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Around	around	ADV	_	3 hundred	advmod
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 hundred	compound
3	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 lamps	nummod
4	lamps	lamp	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 lit	nsubj:pass
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lit	aux:pass
6	lit	lit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 hall	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 hall	det
9	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lit	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 lit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lit	past · passive		hundred lamps		the hall			tree rules

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