Exam question 2 · Project Gutenberg 641, The Boys with the Golden Stars, par…
What is the minimum distance stated between the moor and the place where the youth awoke?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: minimum distance, youth · What happens: be, state, awake · To what, where: minimum distance
This is exam question 2 of lesson 1801 «Project Gutenberg 641, The Boys with the Golden Stars, part 1: an emperor hears three sisters' boasts and carries off Laptitza» 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 | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 distance | det |
| 4 | minimum | minimum | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 distance | amod |
| 5 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 6 | stated | state | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 distance | acl |
| 7 | between | between | ADP | _ | 9 moor | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 moor | det |
| 9 | moor | moor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stated | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 place | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 place | det |
| 12 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 moor | conj |
| 13 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 16 awoke | advmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 youth | det |
| 15 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 awoke | nsubj |
| 16 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 place | acl:relcl |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the minimum distance | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | state speech: other | participle | the minimum distance not said here | between the moor and the place | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | awake | past | the youth | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ✓ the right answer
At least a mile
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 least | case |
| 2 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 mile | nmod |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 mile | det |
| 4 | mile | mile | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Half a league away
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 3 league | det:predet |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 league | det |
| 3 | league | league | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 away | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
At least a mile across the open moor
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 least | case |
| 2 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 mile | nmod |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 mile | det |
| 4 | mile | mile | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | across | across | ADP | _ | 8 moor | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 moor | det |
| 7 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 moor | amod |
| 8 | moor | moor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 mile | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
More than ten miles over hills and rivers
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | More | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 3 ten | advmod |
| 2 | than | than | ADP | _ | 1 More | fixed |
| 3 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 miles | nummod |
| 4 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | over | over | ADP | _ | 6 hills | case |
| 6 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 miles | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 rivers | cc |
| 8 | rivers | river | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 hills | conj |
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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