Exam question 3 · Arab Tales, Sit-in-the-Kitchen, the youngest son guards th…

For how many years did the sultan lose his dates to the bird before his youngest son intervened?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: do, lose, intervene · To what, where: sultan, dates, youngest son

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1794 «Arab Tales, Sit-in-the-Kitchen, the youngest son guards the date tree and catches the bird» 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	For	for	ADP	_	4 years	case
2	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	3 many	advmod
3	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 years	amod
4	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 did	obl
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sultan	det
7	sultan	sultan	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	obj
8	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 did	xcomp
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 dates	nmod:poss
10	dates	date	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 lose	obj
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 bird	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 bird	det
13	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lose	obl
14	before	before	ADP	_	17 son	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 son	nmod:poss
16	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	17 son	amod
17	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lose	obl
18	intervened	intervene	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 son	acl
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	the sultan	year		tree rules
2	lose	infinitive	his dates	before bird's youngest son	to the bird	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent date=Eventuality
3	intervene	participle	bird's youngest son not said here			tree rules

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

Five

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

Ten

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

Four

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

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.

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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