Exam question 3 · Classical Mythology, Uranus and Gaea, part 2: Uranus hates…

What numerical quantity of Titans is specified in the passage?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: quantity, specify · To what, where: numerical quantity, passage

This is exam question 3 of lesson 496 «Classical Mythology, Uranus and Gaea, part 2: Uranus hates his fierce children, the Giants.» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 quantity	nsubj
2	numerical	numerical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 quantity	amod
3	quantity	quantity	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 specified	nsubj:pass
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Titans	case
5	Titans	Titan	PROPN	Number=Plur	3 quantity	nmod
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 specified	aux:pass
7	specified	specify	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 passage	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 passage	det
10	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 specified	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 specified	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	quantity							of Titans	tree rules
2	specify	present · passive		numerical quantity		the passage			vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=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 · ✓ the right answer

twelve in number

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 number	case
3	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 twelve	nmod

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

Option 2

twelve in number, and each of them was a Titan

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 number	case
3	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 twelve	nmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 Titan	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 Titan	cc
6	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	11 Titan	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 them	case
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 each	nmod
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 Titan	cop
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 Titan	det
11	Titan	Titan	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 twelve	appos

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	each	a Titan					tree rules

Option 3

seven in number

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 number	case
3	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 seven	nmod

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

Option 4

twelve in number, with Giants and Hecatoncheires among them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 number	case
3	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 twelve	nmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Giants	punct
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 Giants	case
6	Giants	Giant	PROPN	Number=Plur	1 twelve	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 Hecatoncheires	cc
8	Hecatoncheires	Hecatoncheires	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Giants	conj
9	among	among	ADP	_	10 them	case
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 Hecatoncheires	nmod

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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