Exam question 4 · German Popular Stories, The Cottager And His Cat, part 1:…

How many persons were seated at supper when the youth first entered the hut?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: youth · What happens: seat, enter · To what, where: many persons, supper, hut

This is exam question 4 of lesson 689 «German Popular Stories, The Cottager And His Cat, part 1: a miser's son obeys a strange dream and buys a cat» 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 persons	amod
3	persons	person	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 seated	nsubj:pass
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 seated	aux:pass
5	seated	seat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 supper	case
7	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 seated	obl
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 entered	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 youth	det
10	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 entered	nsubj
11	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	12 entered	advmod
12	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 seated	advcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 hut	det
14	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 entered	obj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 seated	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seat	past · passive		many persons		supper			vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: subject=Value
2	enter	past	the youth	the hut				first property	vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hut=Destination

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

eight people in all, counting the children

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 people	nummod
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 all	case
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 people	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 counting	punct
6	counting	count	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 people	acl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 children	det
8	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 counting	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	count	gerund	eight people in all not said here	the children					vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme

Option 2 · ← 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 3 · ✓ 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 4

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.

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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