Exam question 2 · The Blue Bird, King Charming, part 3: the King is tricked,…

What was the duration, in years, of the transformation that the Fairy Mazilla imposed upon the King?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Fairy Mazilla · What happens: be, impose · To what, where: duration

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1866 «The Blue Bird, King Charming, part 3: the King is tricked, then turned into a Blue Bird» 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 duration	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 duration	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 duration	det
4	duration	duration	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 years	punct
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 years	case
7	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 duration	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 transformation	punct
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 transformation	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 transformation	det
11	transformation	transformation	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 duration	conj
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 imposed	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Mazilla	det
14	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Mazilla	compound
15	Mazilla	Mazilla	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 imposed	nsubj
16	imposed	impose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 transformation	advcl
17	upon	upon	ADP	_	19 King	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 King	det
19	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 imposed	obl
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 duration	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the duration and years and the transformation					tree rules
2	impose	past	the Fairy Mazilla					upon the King	vn enforce-63 «NP V that S»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice

One

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 2

Two

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 3

Seven years and seven months of penance in the woods

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 years	nummod
2	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 months	cc
4	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 months	nummod
5	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 years	conj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 penance	case
7	penance	penance	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 months	nmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 woods	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 woods	det
10	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 penance	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

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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