Exam question 4 · Uncle Remus, The Florida Watermelon, part 34: Remus warns…

Which sum did Pegleg Charley request from Uncle Remus for the purchase of a pie?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sum · What happens: do, purchase · To what, where: Pegleg request, Uncle Remus, pie

This is exam question 4 of lesson 598 «Uncle Remus, The Florida Watermelon, part 34: Remus warns a boy, tells of a stomach ache, and grumbles about schooling» 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 sum	det
2	sum	sum	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Pegleg	Pegleg	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 request	compound
5	Charley	Charley	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Pegleg	flat
6	request	request	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 Remus	case
8	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Remus	compound
9	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 request	nmod
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 purchase	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 purchase	det
12	purchase	purchase	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 pie	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 pie	det
15	pie	pie	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 purchase	nmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	which sum	Pegleg request		Uncle Remus		for the purchase of a pie	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent request=Eventuality
2	purchase			a pie					nom purchase «act transitive»: of=patient

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

A nickel

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 nickel	det
2	nickel	nickel	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

A dollar and a half for the pie

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 dollar	det
2	dollar	dollar	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 half	cc
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 half	det
5	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	2 dollar	conj
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 pie	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 pie	det
8	pie	pie	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dollar	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A dime

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 dime	det
2	dime	dime	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Two bits

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 bits	nummod
2	bits	bit	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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