Exam question 4 · Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and the Golden Snuff-box, part 13…
What period of grace was granted to Jack for recovering the castle?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: grant, recover · To what, where: period, Jack, castle
This is exam question 4 of lesson 1954 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and the Golden Snuff-box, part 13: Jack wins a castle, loses it, and sets out to find it» 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 | 6 granted | obj |
| 2 | period | period | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 granted | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 grace | case |
| 4 | grace | grace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 period | nmod |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 granted | aux:pass |
| 6 | granted | grant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 Jack | case |
| 8 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 granted | obl |
| 9 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 10 recovering | mark |
| 10 | recovering | recover | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 granted | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 castle | det |
| 12 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 recovering | obj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 granted | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grant | past · passive | period of grace | Jack | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: subject=Goal what=Theme | ||||
| 2 | recover | gerund | the castle | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent castle=Theme |
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
a twelvemonths and a day
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 twelvemonths | det |
| 2 | twelvemonths | twelvemonth | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 day | cc |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 day | det |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 twelvemonths | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
a twelvemonths and a day, not a minute more or less
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 twelvemonths | det |
| 2 | twelvemonths | twelvemonth | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 day | cc |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 day | det |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 twelvemonths | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 minute | punct |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 minute | advmod |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 minute | det |
| 9 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 twelvemonths | conj |
| 10 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 2 twelvemonths | advmod |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 less | cc |
| 12 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 10 more | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
a year and a day
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 year | det |
| 2 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 day | cc |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 day | det |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 year | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
twelve months and a day
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 months | nummod |
| 2 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 day | cc |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 day | det |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 months | 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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