Exam question 3 · Indian Fairy Tales, The Prince and the Vizier's Son, part…

State the number of robbers who comprised the family occupying the tower.

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, robbers, family · What happens: state, comprise, occupy · To what, where: number, family, tower

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1852 «Indian Fairy Tales, The Prince and the Vizier's Son, part 36: the prince falls for a fairy's reflection, and the friends escape the robbers» 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	_	5 robbers	case
5	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 number	nmod
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 comprised	nsubj
7	comprised	comprise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 robbers	acl:relcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 family	det
9	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 comprised	obj
10	occupying	occupy	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 family	acl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 tower	det
12	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 occupying	obj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 State	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	state speech: other	imperative	you not said here	the number of robbers	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent number=Topic
2	comprise	past	robbers	the family	vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme family=Pivot
3	occupy	gerund	the family not said here	the tower	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus tower=Experiencer

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

Eleven, not counting the captives

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eleven	eleven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 counting	punct
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 counting	advmod
4	counting	count	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Eleven	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 captives	det
6	captives	captive	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 counting	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not count	gerund		the captives					vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent captive=Theme

Option 2

Twelve, counting the old father

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 counting	punct
3	counting	count	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Twelve	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 father	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 father	amod
6	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 counting	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	count	gerund		the old father					vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Eleven robbers, including one elder sister, and the captives they kept in the tower

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eleven	eleven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 robbers	nummod
2	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 sister	punct
4	including	including	ADP	_	7 sister	case
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 sister	nummod
6	elder	elder	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sister	compound
7	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 robbers	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 kept	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 kept	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 captives	det
11	captives	captive	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 kept	nsubj
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 kept	nsubj
13	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 robbers	acl:relcl
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 tower	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 tower	det
16	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 kept	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	the captives	Eleven robbers and one elder sister not said here		the tower			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent robber=Theme in tower=Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Eleven, including one elder sister

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eleven	eleven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 sister	punct
3	including	including	ADP	_	6 sister	case
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 elder	nummod
5	elder	elder	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sister	compound
6	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Eleven	conj

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

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