Exam question 4 · Grimm, Eisenkopf, part 45: Peter's nut-born herds, his wed…

How many countries did Peter traverse in his flight before reaching the third old woman?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: many countries · What happens: traverse, reach · To what, where: flight, third old woman

This is exam question 4 of lesson 705 «Grimm, Eisenkopf, part 45: Peter's nut-born herds, his wedding, and his flight from Eisenkopf» 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 countries	amod
3	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 traverse	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 traverse	aux
5	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 traverse	nsubj
6	traverse	traverse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 flight	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 flight	nmod:poss
9	flight	flight	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 traverse	obl
10	before	before	SCONJ	_	11 reaching	mark
11	reaching	reach	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 traverse	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 woman	det
13	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	15 woman	amod
14	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 woman	amod
15	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 reaching	obj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 traverse	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	traverse	past · do-support	many countries			Peter's flight			vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
2	reach	gerund	many countries not said here	the third old woman					vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent woman=Theme

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

Seven times seven

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 times	nummod
2	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 times	flat

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

More than a hundred countries across the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	More	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	4 hundred	advmod
2	than	than	ADP	_	1 More	fixed
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 hundred	det
4	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 countries	nummod
5	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	across	across	ADP	_	8 sea	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sea	det
8	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 countries	nmod

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

Option 3

Twenty-one kingdoms

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 one	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Twenty	punct
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 kingdoms	nummod
4	kingdoms	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

Seven countries and seven seas beyond

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 countries	nummod
2	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 seas	cc
4	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 seas	nummod
5	seas	sea	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 countries	conj
6	beyond	beyond	ADV	_	2 countries	advmod

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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