Exam question 2 · Olive Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 1: Simon buys a mule…

According to the passage, what was the price the rogues paid to acquire the second goat from Simon?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: passage, rogues · What happens: accord, be, pay, acquire · To what, where: price, second goat, Simon

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1906 «Olive Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 1: Simon buys a mule that three rogues swear is a donkey» 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	According	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 passage	case
2	to	to	ADP	_	1 According	fixed
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 passage	det
4	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 paid	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 price	punct
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 price	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 price	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 price	det
9	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 passage	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 rogues	det
11	rogues	rogue	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 paid	nsubj
12	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	to	to	PART	_	14 acquire	mark
14	acquire	acquire	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 paid	xcomp
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 goat	det
16	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	17 goat	amod
17	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 acquire	obj
18	from	from	ADP	_	19 Simon	case
19	Simon	Simon	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 acquire	obl
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 paid	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	accord	gerund					vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	the passage and the price	the price			tree rules
3	pay	past	the rogues			accord the passage and the price	tree rules
4	acquire	to-infinitive	the rogues not said here	the second goat	Simon		vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent goat=Theme from simon=Source

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

A hundred gold pieces, plus the mule as well

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 pieces	det
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 pieces	nummod
3	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pieces	compound
4	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 mule	punct
6	plus	plus	CCONJ	_	8 mule	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 mule	det
8	mule	mule	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pieces	appos
9	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=ADV	8 mule	advmod
10	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 as	fixed

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

Option 2

Thirty gold pieces

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 pieces	nummod
2	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pieces	compound
3	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

Forty silver coins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Forty	forty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 coins	amod
2	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 coins	compound
3	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Fifty gold pieces

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 pieces	nummod
2	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pieces	compound
3	pieces	piece	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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