Exam question 1 · Arabian Nights, The Story of the Three Calenders, part 20:…

Which statement accurately describes the number of entrances to the square court?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: statement · What happens: describe · To what, where: number

This is exam question 1 of lesson 180 «Arabian Nights, The Story of the Three Calenders, part 20: the Golden Door is opened, a flying horse carries the narrator off and blinds his right eye» 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 statement	det
2	statement	statement	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 describes	nsubj
3	accurately	accurately	ADV	_	4 describes	advmod
4	describes	describe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 number	det
6	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 describes	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 entrances	case
8	entrances	entrance	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 number	nmod
9	to	to	ADP	_	12 court	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 court	det
11	square	square	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 court	compound
12	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 entrances	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 describes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	describe	present	which statement	the number of entrances to the square court				accurately property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent number=Theme

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 hundred doors, all of rare wood, and one forbidden gate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hundred	compound
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 doors	nummod
3	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 all	punct
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 doors	conj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 wood	case
7	rare	rare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 wood	amod
8	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 all	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 gate	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 gate	cc
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 gate	nummod
12	forbidden	forbid	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 gate	amod
13	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 doors	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forbid	participle							vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer

Option 2

One hundred doors in total

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hundred	compound
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 doors	nummod
3	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 total	case
5	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 doors	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

One hundred doors, ninety-nine of rare wood and one of gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hundred	compound
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 doors	nummod
3	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 nine	punct
5	ninety	ninety	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 nine	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 ninety	punct
7	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 doors	appos
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 wood	case
9	rare	rare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 wood	amod
10	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 nine	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 one	cc
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 nine	conj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 gold	case
14	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 one	nmod

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

Option 4

Ninety-nine doors of wood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ninety	ninety	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 nine	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Ninety	punct
3	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 doors	nummod
4	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 wood	case
6	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 doors	nmod

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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