Exam question 3 · The Book of Dragons, The Last of the Dragons: Nigel must w…

How many hours did Nigel expend in the attempt to resolve the sum?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: many hours · What happens: expend, resolve · To what, where: attempt, sum

This is exam question 3 of lesson 649 «The Book of Dragons, The Last of the Dragons: Nigel must work out the dragon's sleep, and the dragon turns to stone» 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 hours	amod
3	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 expend	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 expend	aux
5	Nigel	Nigel	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 expend	nsubj
6	expend	expend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 attempt	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 attempt	det
9	attempt	attempt	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 expend	obl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 resolve	mark
11	resolve	resolve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 attempt	acl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sum	det
13	sum	sum	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 resolve	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 expend	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	expend	past · do-support	many hours			the attempt			tree rules
2	resolve	to-infinitive	many hours not said here	the sum					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

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 2 · ✓ the right answer

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 3

Seven hours, which was an awful lot of time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hours	nummod
2	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 lot	punct
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 lot	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 lot	cop
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 lot	det
7	awful	awful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 lot	amod
8	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hours	acl:relcl
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 time	case
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lot	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Seven hours	a awful lot			time		tree rules

Option 4

Four

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Four	four	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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