Exam question 3 · Celtic Fairy Tales, Trembling: the whale, the silver bulle…

State the number of hours for which the son of the king of Lochlin contested the claim to Trembling.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, son · What happens: state, contest · To what, where: number, claim

This is exam question 3 of lesson 2013 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Trembling: the whale, the silver bullet and the cowboy's message» 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	State	state	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 number	det
3	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 State	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 hours	case
5	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 number	nmod
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 which	case
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 contested	obl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 son	det
9	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 contested	nsubj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 king	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 king	det
12	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 son	nmod
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 Lochlin	case
14	Lochlin	Lochlin	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 king	nmod
15	contested	contest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hours	acl:relcl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 claim	det
17	claim	claim	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 contested	obj
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 Trembling	case
19	Trembling	Trembling	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 claim	nmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 State	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	state speech: other	imperative	you not said here	the number of hours					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent number=Topic
2	contest	past	the son of the king of Lochlin	the claim			for hours	to Trembling	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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Nine hours

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hours	nummod
2	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

Eight hours

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

Seven hours

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hours	nummod
2	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

Six

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	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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