Exam question 2 · The Book of Dragons, The Last of the Dragons, part 27: Edm…

Pursuant to the text, state the number of holes contained in each copper shoe.

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: state, contain · To what, where: number, text, holes, copper shoe

This is exam question 2 of lesson 659 «The Book of Dragons, The Last of the Dragons, part 27: Edmund fetches the drakling and tricks it into the fire-shaft» 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	Pursuant	pursuant	ADV	_	6 state	advmod
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 text	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 text	det
4	text	text	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 state	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 text	punct
6	state	state	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 number	det
8	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 state	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 holes	case
10	holes	hole	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 number	nmod
11	contained	contain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 holes	acl
12	in	in	ADP	_	15 shoe	case
13	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	15 shoe	det
14	copper	copper	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 shoe	compound
15	shoe	shoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 contained	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 state	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	state speech: other	imperative	you not said here	the number of holes	the text			pursuant property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent number=Topic to text=Recipient
2	contain	participle		holes not said here		each copper shoe			vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in shoe=Location

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 · ✓ the right answer

five

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 2

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 · ← Mova's choice

each shoe has five holes in it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	2 shoe	det
2	shoe	shoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 holes	nummod
5	holes	hole	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 has	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 holes	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	each shoe	five holes		it			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hole=Patient

Option 4

five holes on every single shoe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 holes	nummod
2	holes	hole	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	6 shoe	case
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 shoe	det
5	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 shoe	amod
6	shoe	shoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 holes	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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