Exam question 4 · Aesop for Children, The Woodman and Mercury: an honest woo…

How many axes did Mercury finally bestow upon the honest Woodman?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: many axes · What happens: bestow

This is exam question 4 of lesson 372 «Aesop for Children, The Woodman and Mercury: an honest woodman gets all three axes» 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 axes	amod
3	axes	ax	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 bestow	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 Mercury	aux
5	Mercury	Mercury	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 axes	appos
6	finally	finally	ADV	_	7 bestow	advmod
7	bestow	bestow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	upon	upon	ADP	_	11 Woodman	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Woodman	det
10	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 Woodman	amod
11	Woodman	Woodman	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 bestow	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 bestow	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bestow	present	many axes					upon the honest Woodman; finally property	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

Three axes.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 axes	nummod
2	axes	ax	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 axes	punct

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

Option 2

Two axes too.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 axes	nummod
2	axes	ax	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	too	too	ADV	_	2 axes	advmod
4	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 axes	punct

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

Option 3

All three of the axes that he had lost in the pool.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 three	det
2	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 axes	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 axes	det
5	axes	ax	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 three	nmod
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 lost	nsubj:pass
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 lost	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 lost	aux
9	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 axes	acl:relcl
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 pool	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 pool	det
12	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lost	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 three	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past · perfect · passive		the axes		the pool			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

Option 4

Three coins.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 coins	nummod
2	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 coins	punct

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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