Exam question 2 · Irish Folk Tales, Trembling, part 31: a lost golden shoe,…

To what length does the prince run with the mare before releasing her?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: length · What happens: do, run, release · To what, where: prince, length

This is exam question 2 of lesson 2012 «Irish Folk Tales, Trembling, part 31: a lost golden shoe, a hunt for its owner, and a girl locked in a closet» 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	To	to	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 run	nsubj
3	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 does	nsubj
4	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 what	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 prince	det
6	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 does	obj
7	run	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 mare	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 mare	det
10	mare	mare	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 run	obl
11	before	before	SCONJ	_	12 releasing	mark
12	releasing	release	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 run	advcl
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 releasing	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 run	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	present	length	the prince		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Eventuality
2	run	present			with the mare	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent with mare=Material
3	release	gerund		length		vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer she=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

fifteen perches

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 perches	nummod
2	perches	perch	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

ten perches

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

thirty perches

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 perches	nummod
2	perches	perch	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

until the mare was tired and the prince stopped by the river

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	until	until	SCONJ	_	5 tired	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 mare	det
3	mare	mare	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tired	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tired	cop
5	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 stopped	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 prince	det
8	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stopped	nsubj
9	stopped	stop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 tired	conj
10	by	by	ADP	_	12 river	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 river	det
12	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stopped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the mare					tired property	tree rules
2	stop	participle	the prince					by the river	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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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