Exam question 1 · Pink Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead, part 22: Celandine ge…
Pursuant to the passage, what was the precise number of dried plums contained in the dish?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: passage · What happens: be, dry, contain · To what, where: precise number, dried plums, dish
This is exam question 1 of lesson 1885 «Pink Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead, part 22: Celandine gets a white cow, then the Prince finds her and they ride off to the Leafy Palace» 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 | Pursuant | pursuant | ADV | _ | 4 passage | advmod |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 passage | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 passage | det |
| 4 | passage | passage | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 number | punct |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 number | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 number | cop |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 number | det |
| 9 | precise | precise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 number | amod |
| 10 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 passage | conj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 plums | case |
| 12 | dried | dry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 plums | amod |
| 13 | plums | plum | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 number | nmod |
| 14 | contained | contain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 plums | acl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 dish | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 dish | det |
| 17 | dish | dish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 contained | obl |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 passage | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the passage and the precise number | the precise number | of dried plums | tree rules | |||
| 2 | dry | participle | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | contain | participle | dried plums not said here | the dish | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in dish=Location |
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
No
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
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
Roughly five dried plums sitting on the dish
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Roughly | roughly | ADV | _ | 2 five | advmod |
| 2 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 plums | nummod |
| 3 | dried | dry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 plums | amod |
| 4 | plums | plum | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 plums | acl |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 dish | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 dish | det |
| 8 | dish | dish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sitting | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dry | participle | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | sit | gerund | five dried plums not said here | the dish | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on dish=Location |
Option 4
Four
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Four | four | 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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