Exam question 2 · pg641, the prince and his beasts, part 8: the prince is ki…

State the number of blasts which the prince sounded upon his hunting horn before his intended death.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, prince · What happens: state, sound, intend, die · To what, where: number, blasts

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1757 «pg641, the prince and his beasts, part 8: the prince is killed and a crow brings him back to life» 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 blasts	case
5	blasts	blast	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 number	nmod
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 sounded	obj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 prince	det
8	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sounded	nsubj
9	sounded	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 blasts	acl:relcl
10	upon	upon	ADP	_	13 horn	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 horn	nmod:poss
12	hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 horn	compound
13	horn	horn	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sounded	obl
14	before	before	ADP	_	17 death	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 death	nmod:poss
16	intended	intend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 death	amod
17	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 horn	nmod
18	.	.	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 blasts		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent number=Topic
2	sound	past	the prince	blasts	upon prince's hunting horn before prince's intended death	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location which=Theme
3	intend	participle				vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
4	die		prince			nom death «event intransitive»: poss=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

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

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 3

nine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4 · ✓ 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.

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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