Exam question 1 · Violet Fairy Book, The Colony of Cats, part 1: Labakan's t…

What was the amount which Labakan tendered in compensation for the robe?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: amount · What happens: be, tender · To what, where: compensation

This is exam question 1 of lesson 719 «Violet Fairy Book, The Colony of Cats, part 1: Labakan's tailor shop and Lizina's first days with the cats» 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	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 amount	det
4	amount	amount	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 tendered	nsubj
6	Labakan	Labakan	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 tendered	nsubj
7	tendered	tender	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 amount	acl:relcl
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 compensation	case
9	compensation	compensation	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tendered	obl
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 robe	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 robe	det
12	robe	robe	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tendered	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the amount						tree rules
2	tender	past	the amount			compensation		for the robe	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

Ten times its price, with the shopkeeper's blessing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 times	nummod
2	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 price	nmod:unmarked
3	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 price	nmod:poss
4	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 blessing	punct
6	with	with	ADP	_	10 blessing	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 shopkeeper	det
8	shopkeeper	shopkeeper	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 blessing	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 shopkeeper	case
10	blessing	blessing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 price	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bless		the shopkeeper						nom blessing «act transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Three times its price

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	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 price	nmod:poss
4	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 times	nmod:unmarked

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

Option 3

Three times its price, paid in advance in silver

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	4 price	nmod:unmarked
3	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 price	nmod:poss
4	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 paid	punct
6	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 price	acl
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 advance	case
8	advance	advance	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 paid	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 silver	case
10	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 paid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	participle		its price Three times not said here		advance		in silver	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Three times the cost

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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cost	det
4	cost	cost	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 times	nmod:unmarked

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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