Exam question 2 · Grimm's Household Tales, Hans in Luck, part 3: Hans trades…

State the number of years Hans laboured to acquire the silver.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Hans · What happens: state, labour, acquire · To what, where: number, silver

This is exam question 2 of lesson 727 «Grimm's Household Tales, Hans in Luck, part 3: Hans trades his goose for a grindstone» 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	State	state	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 State	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 years	case
5	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 laboured	obl
6	Hans	Han	PROPN	Number=Plur	7 laboured	nsubj
7	laboured	labour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 number	acl:relcl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 acquire	mark
9	acquire	acquire	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 laboured	xcomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 silver	det
11	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 acquire	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 State	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	state speech: other	imperative	you not said here	the number		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent number=Topic
2	labour	past	Hans	the number not said here	year	tree rules
3	acquire	to-infinitive	Hans not said here	the silver		vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset silver=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 · ← 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 2 · ✓ the right answer

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.

Option 3

seven years and more

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 years	nummod
2	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 more	cc
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 years	conj

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

Option 4

nine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nine	nine	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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