Exam question 2 · Fairy Book, Prince Vivien, part 53: a hungry prince, a pat…

What precise number of peas did the old woman stipulate for cooking?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: old woman · What happens: stipulate

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1916 «Fairy Book, Prince Vivien, part 53: a hungry prince, a patient old woman, and a bell at the castle» 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	10 stipulate	obl
2	precise	precise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 number	amod
3	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 peas	case
5	peas	pea	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 number	nmod
6	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 stipulate	aux
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 woman	det
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 woman	amod
9	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stipulate	nsubj
10	stipulate	stipulate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 cooking	case
12	cooking	cooking	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stipulate	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 stipulate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stipulate	past · do-support	the old woman					for cooking	tree rules

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

Forty-five, neither more nor fewer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 five	punct
3	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Forty	nmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 more	punct
5	neither	neither	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	6 more	cc:preconj
6	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 five	conj
7	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	8 fewer	cc
8	fewer	few	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 more	conj

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Fifty-four, neither more nor fewer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 four	punct
3	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Fifty	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 more	punct
5	neither	neither	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	6 more	cc:preconj
6	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 Fifty	conj
7	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	8 fewer	cc
8	fewer	few	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 more	conj

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

Option 3

Fifteen, neither more nor fewer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fifteen	fifteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 more	punct
3	neither	neither	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	4 more	cc:preconj
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 Fifteen	conj
5	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	6 fewer	cc
6	fewer	few	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 more	conj

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Sixty, neither more nor fewer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sixty	sixty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 more	punct
3	neither	neither	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	4 more	cc:preconj
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 Sixty	conj
5	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	6 fewer	cc
6	fewer	few	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 more	conj

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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