Exam question 2 · Grimm, Halfman, part 61: Halfman outwits the ogress and es…

State the duration of the journey undertaken by the twelve brothers before their meeting with the old woman.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: state, undertake · To what, where: duration, journey

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1810 «Grimm, Halfman, part 61: Halfman outwits the ogress and escapes the ogre» 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 duration	det
3	duration	duration	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 State	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 journey	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 journey	det
6	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 duration	nmod
7	undertaken	undertake	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 journey	acl
8	by	by	ADP	_	11 brothers	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 brothers	det
10	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 brothers	nummod
11	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 undertaken	obl
12	before	before	ADP	_	14 meeting	case
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 meeting	nmod:poss
14	meeting	meeting	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 State	obl
15	with	with	ADP	_	18 woman	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 woman	det
17	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 woman	amod
18	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 meeting	nmod
19	.	.	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 duration of the journey			before brothers's meeting with the old woman		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent duration=Topic
2	undertake	participle		the journey not said here				by the twelve brothers	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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

seven days

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 days	nummod
2	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

twelve days

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 days	nummod
2	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

for many weeks across the frozen hills

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	for	for	ADP	_	3 weeks	case
2	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 weeks	amod
3	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	across	across	ADP	_	7 hills	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hills	det
6	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 hills	amod
7	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 weeks	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	freeze	participle							vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

two days

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 days	nummod
2	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	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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