Exam question 3 · Indian Fairy Tales, The Soothsayer's Son, part 14: three a…

What is the approximate duration of Gangazara's residence in Benares?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: approximate duration · What happens: be

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1830 «Indian Fairy Tales, The Soothsayer's Son, part 14: three animals and a goldsmith are pulled from a well, and years later a tiger brings a crown» 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 duration	det
4	approximate	approximate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 duration	amod
5	duration	duration	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 residence	case
7	Gangazara	Gangazara	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 residence	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 Gangazara	case
9	residence	residence	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 duration	nmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 Benares	case
11	Benares	Benares	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 residence	nmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the approximate duration of Gangazara's residence in Benares						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 · ← Mova's choice

About twelve years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	About	about	ADV	_	2 twelve	advmod
2	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 years	nummod
3	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

Nearly ten years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nearly	nearly	ADV	_	2 ten	advmod
2	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 years	nummod
3	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

Few years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 years	amod
2	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

More than ten years

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 years	nummod
4	years	year	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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