Exam question 4 · Roumanian Tales, The Milkwhite Maiden, part 53: the sparks…

State the age, strength and wisdom attained by the princes after three days and nights.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: state, attain · To what, where: age, strength

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1802 «Roumanian Tales, The Milkwhite Maiden, part 53: the sparks become golden fishes, and the fishes become princes» 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	State	state	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 age	det
3	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 State	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 strength	punct
5	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 age	conj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 wisdom	cc
7	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 strength	conj
8	attained	attain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 strength	acl
9	by	by	ADP	_	11 princes	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 princes	det
11	princes	prince	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 attained	obl
12	after	after	ADP	_	14 days	case
13	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 days	nummod
14	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 attained	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 nights	cc
16	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 days	conj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 State	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	state speech: other	imperative	you not said here	the age and strength and wisdom					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent age=Topic
2	attain	participle		strength and wisdom not said here			day	by the princes	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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

Twelve years in age, twenty-four in strength

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 years	nummod
2	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 age	case
4	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 years	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 four	punct
6	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 four	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 twenty	punct
8	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 years	parataxis
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 strength	case
10	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 four	nmod

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

Option 2

Twelve years in age, twenty-four in strength, and wise beyond their years

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 years	nummod
2	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 wise	obl:unmarked
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 age	case
4	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 years	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 four	punct
6	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 four	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 twenty	punct
8	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 wise	nsubj
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 strength	case
10	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 four	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 wise	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 wise	cc
13	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
14	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	16 years	case
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 years	nmod:poss
16	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 wise	obl

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

Option 3

Twelve years in age, twenty-four in strength, and great wisdom from the old witch

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 years	nummod
2	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 four	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 age	case
4	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 years	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 four	punct
6	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 four	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 twenty	punct
8	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 strength	case
10	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 four	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 wisdom	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 wisdom	cc
13	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 wisdom	amod
14	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 four	conj
15	from	from	ADP	_	18 witch	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 witch	det
17	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 witch	amod
18	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 wisdom	nmod

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

Option 4

Twelve years in age, twenty in strength

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 years	nummod
2	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 age	case
4	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 years	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 twenty	punct
6	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 years	conj
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 strength	case
8	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 twenty	nmod

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

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