Exam question 2 · Household Tales, The Spring-Root, part 26: Blaize tells ho…

What number of returns to the treasure chamber did the spectre permit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: number · What happens: do · To what, where: spectre permit

This is exam question 2 of lesson 686 «Household Tales, The Spring-Root, part 26: Blaize tells how to win the root, and poor Peter makes a plan» 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	9 did	obj
2	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 did	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 returns	case
4	returns	return	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 number	nmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 chamber	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 chamber	det
7	treasure	treasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 chamber	compound
8	chamber	chamber	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 returns	nmod
9	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 permit	det
11	spectre	spectre	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 permit	compound
12	permit	permit	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 did	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	number of returns to the treasure chamber	the spectre permit					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 · ✓ the right answer

Three

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

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.

Option 3

As many times as he wished

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	As	as	ADV	_	2 many	advmod
2	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 times	amod
3	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 wished	obl:unmarked
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 wished	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 wished	nsubj
6	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wish	past	he				time		vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

Option 4

Three times and no more

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 times	nummod
2	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 more	cc
4	no	no	ADV	_	5 more	advmod
5	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 times	conj

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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