Exam question 4 · Indian Fairy Tales, Gangazara, part 15: the goldsmith betr…

What was the length of Gangazara's confinement in the underground cell as the text describes it?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Gangazara · What happens: be, describe, confine · To what, where: length, text, underground cell

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1831 «Indian Fairy Tales, Gangazara, part 15: the goldsmith betrays Gangazara, and the animal kings try to save him from the dungeon» 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	4 length	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 length	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 length	det
4	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 confinement	case
6	Gangazara	Gangazara	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 confinement	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Gangazara	case
8	confinement	confinement	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 length	nmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 cell	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 cell	det
11	underground	underground	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 cell	amod
12	cell	cell	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 describes	obl
13	as	as	ADP	_	15 text	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 text	det
15	text	text	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cell	nmod
16	describes	describe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 length	parataxis
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 describes	obj
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 length	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the length		of Gangazara's confinement	tree rules
2	describe	present		text	the underground cell as the text		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	confine		Gangazara				nom confinement «state transitive»: poss=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

Ten years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 years	nummod
2	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Ten complete years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 years	nummod
2	complete	complete	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 years	amod
3	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

Seven complete years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 years	nummod
2	complete	complete	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 years	amod
3	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

Nearly ten long 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	4 years	nummod
3	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 years	amod
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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