Exam question 3 · Old English Tales, Robin Hood and Allin-a-Dale: Robin Hood…

How many blasts upon his horn did Robin Hood sound before his men arrived?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: many blasts, men · What happens: do, arrive · To what, where: Hood sound

This is exam question 3 of lesson 344 «Old English Tales, Robin Hood and Allin-a-Dale: Robin Hood helps a sad young man win back his bride from a rich old suitor» 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 many	advmod
2	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 blasts	amod
3	blasts	blast	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 did	nsubj
4	upon	upon	ADP	_	6 horn	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 horn	nmod:poss
6	horn	horn	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 blasts	nmod
7	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	Robin	Robin	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Hood	compound
9	Hood	Hood	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 sound	compound
10	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 did	obj
11	before	before	SCONJ	_	14 arrived	mark
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 men	nmod:poss
13	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 arrived	nsubj
14	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 did	advcl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	many blasts upon his horn	Hood sound					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Eventuality
2	arrive	past	his men						vn escape-51.1-1 «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

Seven

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Three

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

Two

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

One

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	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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