Exam question 1 · Indian Fairy Tales, The Raja's Son and the Princess Labam,…

State the number of magic objects bequeathed by the deceased teacher of the four fakirs.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: state, bequeath, decease · To what, where: number, magic objects

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1819 «Indian Fairy Tales, The Raja's Son and the Princess Labam, part 3: magic things carry the prince to the princess» 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 number	det
3	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 State	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 objects	case
5	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 objects	amod
6	objects	object	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 number	nmod
7	bequeathed	bequeath	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 objects	acl
8	by	by	ADP	_	11 teacher	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 teacher	det
10	deceased	decease	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 teacher	amod
11	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bequeathed	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 fakirs	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 fakirs	det
14	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 fakirs	nummod
15	fakirs	fakir	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 teacher	nmod
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 State	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	state speech: other	imperative	you not said here	the number of magic objects		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent number=Topic
2	bequeath	participle		magic objects not said here	by the deceased teacher of the four fakirs	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
3	decease	participle				vn die-42.4 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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 magical objects in total

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 objects	nummod
2	magical	magical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 objects	amod
3	objects	object	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 total	case
5	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 objects	nmod

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

Option 2

Three

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Four

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 4

Seven

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	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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