Exam question 1 · Hauff's Fairy Tales, The Dwarf Nose, part 41: Mother calls…

With reference to the passage, what was the approximate duration of the boy's transformation?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: passage, boy · What happens: be, transform · To what, where: approximate duration

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1790 «Hauff's Fairy Tales, The Dwarf Nose, part 41: Mother calls Jem a dwarf, father forgets him» 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	5 passage	obl
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 passage	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 passage	det
5	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 duration	punct
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 duration	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 duration	cop
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 duration	det
10	approximate	approximate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 duration	amod
11	duration	duration	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 passage	conj
12	of	of	ADP	_	16 transformation	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 boy	det
14	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 transformation	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 boy	case
16	transformation	transformation	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 duration	nmod
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 passage	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the passage and the approximate duration	the approximate duration				of the boy's transformation	tree rules
2	transform		the boy						nom transformation «event transitive»: 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 · ✓ the right answer

seven years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 years	nummod
2	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

seven months

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	seven	seven	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

seven years, give or take a few

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 years	nummod
2	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 give	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 years	punct
4	give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 take	cc
6	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 give	conj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 few	det
8	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 take	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	imperative	you not said here				year		vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	take	infinitive	you not said here	a few					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent few=Theme

Option 4

approximately seven years long

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	approximately	approximately	ADV	_	2 seven	advmod
2	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 years	nummod
3	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 long	obl:unmarked
4	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	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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