Exam question 4 · English Fairy Tales, Mr. and Mrs. Vinegar, part 5: the Vin…

Which sum of money did Mrs. Vinegar instruct her husband to expend upon a cow?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: sum · What happens: instruct, expend, sum · To what, where: husband, money

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1946 «English Fairy Tales, Mr. and Mrs. Vinegar, part 5: the Vinegars' gold is traded away piece by piece» 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 sum	det
2	sum	sum	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 instruct	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 money	case
4	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sum	nmod
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 Vinegar	aux
6	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Vinegar	compound
7	Vinegar	Vinegar	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 instruct	nsubj
8	instruct	instruct	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 husband	nmod:poss
10	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 instruct	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 expend	mark
12	expend	expend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 instruct	advcl
13	upon	upon	ADP	_	15 cow	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 cow	det
15	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 expend	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 instruct	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	instruct speech: other	present	which sum of money		Vinegar's husband		vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent husband=Recipient
2	expend	to-infinitive	which sum of money not said here			upon a cow	tree rules
3	sum			money			nom sum «possession transitive»: of=patient

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 · ✓ the right answer

forty guineas

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 guineas	nummod
2	guineas	guinea	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

fifty guineas

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 guineas	nummod
2	guineas	guinea	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

ten guineas

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 guineas	nummod
2	guineas	guinea	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

a cow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cow	det
2	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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