Exam question 1 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Golden Children, part 68: the gol…

With what number of portions did the father's division of the golden fish conclude?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: golden fish · What happens: do, conclude · To what, where: division

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1931 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Golden Children, part 68: the golden lad is turned to stone» 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	With	with	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 did	nsubj
3	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 what	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 portions	case
5	portions	portion	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 number	nmod
6	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 father	det
8	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 division	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 father	case
10	division	division	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 did	obj
11	of	of	SCONJ	_	15 conclude	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 fish	det
13	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 fish	amod
14	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 conclude	nsubj
15	conclude	conclude	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 division	advcl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the father's division					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent division=Eventuality
2	conclude	present	the golden fish						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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

six equal portions of golden fish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 portions	nummod
2	equal	equal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 portions	amod
3	portions	portion	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 fish	case
5	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fish	amod
6	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 portions	nmod

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

Option 2

four parts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 parts	nummod
2	parts	part	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

eight portions

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 portions	nummod
2	portions	portion	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

six portions

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 portions	nummod
2	portions	portion	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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