Exam question 2 · Wonder Tales, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, part 5…

Which sum did the foreign merchants owe to Mark, according to the text?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sum, foreign merchants · What happens: do, owe, accord · To what, where: Mark

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1754 «Wonder Tales, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, part 5: the boy loses his cake and his head, then Mark the Rich plots against a baby» 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 sum	det
2	sum	sum	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 merchants	det
5	foreign	foreign	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 merchants	amod
6	merchants	merchant	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 owe	nsubj
7	owe	owe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	ccomp
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 Mark	case
9	Mark	Mark	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 owe	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 text	punct
11	according	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 text	case
12	to	to	ADP	_	11 according	fixed
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 text	det
14	text	text	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Mark	conj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	roles by
1	do	past	which sum		tree rules
2	owe	present	the foreign merchants	Mark and the text	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to mark=Goal
3	accord	gerund			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: 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

two hundred

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	root	root

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

Option 2

ten crowns

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 crowns	nummod
2	crowns	crown	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

twelve thousand crowns

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 thousand	compound
2	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 crowns	nummod
3	crowns	crown	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

nine thousand crowns

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 thousand	compound
2	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 crowns	nummod
3	crowns	crown	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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