Exam question 2 · The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 4: Mr. Toad (the…

Compute the aggregate term proposed by the Clerk prior to its rounding.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: compute, propose · To what, where: aggregate term

This is exam question 2 of lesson 48 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 4: Mr. Toad (the car in the inn-yard, twenty years, and the deepest dungeon)» 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	Compute	compute	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 term	det
3	aggregate	aggregate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 term	compound
4	term	term	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Compute	obj
5	proposed	propose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 term	acl
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 Clerk	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Clerk	det
8	Clerk	Clerk	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 proposed	obl
9	prior	prior	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	12 rounding	case
10	to	to	ADP	_	9 prior	fixed
11	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 rounding	nmod:poss
12	rounding	rounding	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 proposed	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Compute	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	compute	imperative	you not said here	the aggregate term					vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent term=Result
2	propose	participle		the aggregate term not said here				by the Clerk; prior Clerk's rounding	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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

Twenty years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 years	nummod
2	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

Nineteen years, plus a fine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nineteen	nineteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 years	nummod
2	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 fine	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 fine	punct
4	plus	plus	CCONJ	_	6 fine	cc
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 fine	det
6	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3

Nine years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Nineteen years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nineteen	nineteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 years	nummod
2	years	year	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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