Exam question 2 · Crimson Fairy Book, The Seven Simeons, part 8: Simon steal…

Identify the number of mounted and foot soldiers that the King of Archidej assigned to escort the Princess Helena upon her departure.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, King, Archidej · What happens: identify, mount, assign, escort, depart · To what, where: number, Princess Helena, departure

This is exam question 2 of lesson 668 «Crimson Fairy Book, The Seven Simeons, part 8: Simon steals the princess and sails off under the sea» 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 number	det
3	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	8 soldiers	case
5	mounted	mount	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 soldiers	amod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 soldiers	cc
7	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 soldiers	compound
8	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 number	nmod
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 assigned	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 King	det
11	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 assigned	nsubj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 Archidej	case
13	Archidej	Archidej	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 King	nmod
14	assigned	assign	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Identify	advcl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 escort	mark
16	escort	escort	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 assigned	xcomp
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Helena	det
18	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Helena	compound
19	Helena	Helena	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 escort	obj
20	upon	upon	ADP	_	22 departure	case
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 departure	nmod:poss
22	departure	departure	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 escort	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the number of mounted foot soldiers		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent number=Theme
2	mount	participle				vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme
3	assign	past	the King of Archidej			tree rules
4	escort	to-infinitive	the King of Archidej not said here	the Princess Helena	Archidej's departure	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent helena=Theme upon departure=Destination
5	depart		Archidej			nom departure «act intransitive»: poss=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

Five hundred foot soldiers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hundred	compound
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 soldiers	nummod
3	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 soldiers	compound
4	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

Ten soldiers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 soldiers	nummod
2	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

One thousand mounted and foot soldiers of the realm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 thousand	compound
2	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 soldiers	nummod
3	mounted	mount	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 soldiers	amod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 soldiers	cc
5	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 soldiers	compound
6	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 realm	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 realm	det
9	realm	realm	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 soldiers	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mount	participle							vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

One thousand soldiers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 thousand	compound
2	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 soldiers	nummod
3	soldiers	soldier	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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