Exam question 1 · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, part 36: the…

State the number of birds the wren assembled for the contest.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: state, assemble · To what, where: number, wren

This is exam question 1 of lesson 2017 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, part 36: the king's son and the magic bundle» 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 birds	case
5	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 number	nmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wren	det
7	wren	wren	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 birds	conj
8	assembled	assemble	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 wren	acl
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 contest	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 contest	det
11	contest	contest	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 assembled	obl
12	.	.	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 birds and the wren					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent number=Topic
2	assemble	participle		the wren not said here				for the contest	vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=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

thirteen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	thirteen	thirteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

twelve

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 3

thirty-six birds in all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 six	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 thirty	punct
3	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 birds	nummod
4	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 birds	nmod

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

Option 4

twenty-four birds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 four	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 twenty	punct
3	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 birds	nummod
4	birds	bird	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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