Exam question 1 · pg641, Dotterine, part 18: a magic egg grows into a girl,…

With reference to the passage, for what precise duration was the egg required to be kept in a warm place?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: reference · What happens: be, require, keep · To what, where: egg, warm place

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1767 «pg641, Dotterine, part 18: a magic egg grows into a girl, and the queen dies» 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	With	with	ADP	_	2 reference	case
2	reference	reference	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 passage	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 passage	det
5	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reference	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 egg	punct
7	for	for	ADP	_	13 egg	case
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 egg	nsubj
9	precise	precise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 duration	amod
10	duration	duration	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 egg	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 egg	cop
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 egg	det
13	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reference	conj
14	required	require	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 egg	acl
15	to	to	PART	_	17 kept	mark
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 kept	aux:pass
17	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 required	xcomp
18	in	in	ADP	_	21 place	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 place	det
20	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 place	amod
21	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 kept	obl
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 reference	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	reference to the passage and the egg			for the egg	tree rules
2	require	participle		the egg not said here			vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition
3	keep	to-infinitive · passive			a warm place		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: in place=Location

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

nine months

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 months	nummod
2	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

three months

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 months	nummod
2	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

one full year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 year	nummod
2	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 year	amod
3	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

until the child was old enough to walk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	until	until	SCONJ	_	5 old	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 child	det
3	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 old	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 old	cop
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	enough	enough	ADV	_	5 old	advmod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 walk	mark
8	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 old	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the child					enough, old property	tree rules
2	walk	to-infinitive	the child not said here						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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