Exam question 2 · Tales of the Punjab, Why the Fish Laughed, part 1: the que…

What period of time was accorded to the vizier for the resolution of the matter?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · What happens: accord, resolve · To what, where: period, matter

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1849 «Tales of the Punjab, Why the Fish Laughed, part 1: the queen's fish laughs and the vizier's son sets off» 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	6 accorded	obj
2	period	period	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 accorded	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 time	case
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 period	nmod
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 accorded	aux:pass
6	accorded	accord	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 vizier	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 vizier	det
9	vizier	vizier	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 accorded	obl
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 resolution	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 resolution	det
12	resolution	resolution	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 accorded	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 matter	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 matter	det
15	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 resolution	nmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 accorded	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	accord	past · passive		period of time				to the vizier; for the resolution of the matter	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: subject=Goal what=Theme
2	resolve			the matter					nom resolution «communication transitive»: of=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

Four years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Four	four	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

Six months

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 months	nummod
2	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

Weeks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

Days

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	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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