Exam question 4 · Household Tales, Hans Who Feared Nothing: Hans meets the d…

What proportion of the buried money was Hans required to bestow upon the poor?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: proportion · What happens: bury, be, require, bestow · To what, where: Hans

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1800 «Household Tales, Hans Who Feared Nothing: Hans meets the dwarfs and finds the hidden treasure» 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	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	2 proportion	det
2	proportion	proportion	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 Hans	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 money	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 money	det
5	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 money	amod
6	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 proportion	nmod
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 Hans	cop
8	Hans	han	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
9	required	require	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 Hans	acl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 bestow	mark
11	bestow	bestow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 required	xcomp
12	upon	upon	ADP	_	14 poor	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 poor	det
14	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 bestow	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 Hans	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	bury	participle				vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	what proportion of the buried money	Hans		tree rules
3	require	participle		Hans not said here		vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition
4	bestow	to-infinitive			upon the poor	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

All of it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 it	case
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 All	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

One third of the whole

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 third	nummod
2	third	third	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 whole	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 whole	det
5	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 third	nmod

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

Option 3

Half

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

A quarter of the total

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 quarter	det
2	quarter	quarter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 total	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 total	det
5	total	total	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 quarter	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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