Exam question 1 · Gutenberg 641, The Enchanted Knife: a youth tames three wi…

Within what period was the young man required by the emperor to deliver the three horses?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, require, deliver · To what, where: young man, three horses

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1784 «Gutenberg 641, The Enchanted Knife: a youth tames three wild horses and wins the princess with a magic knife.» 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	Within	within	ADP	_	3 period	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 period	nsubj
3	period	period	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 man	obl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 man	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 man	det
6	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 man	amod
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	required	require	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 man	acl
9	by	by	ADP	_	11 emperor	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 emperor	det
11	emperor	emperor	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 required	obl:agent
12	to	to	PART	_	13 deliver	mark
13	deliver	deliver	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 required	advcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 horses	det
15	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 horses	nummod
16	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 deliver	obj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 man	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the young man	within period	tree rules
2	require	participle	the young man not said here		vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme
3	deliver	to-infinitive	the three horses		vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient

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

Within twelve days

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Within	within	ADP	_	3 days	case
2	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 days	nummod
3	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

Within a week

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Within	within	ADP	_	3 week	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 week	det
3	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

After eight days

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	After	after	ADP	_	3 days	case
2	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 days	nummod
3	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Within eight days

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Within	within	ADP	_	3 days	case
2	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 days	nummod
3	days	day	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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