Exam question 3 · Grimm, Snow-White and Rose-Red, part 64: two sisters befri…

What is the precise length of the beard that the dwarf possesses, as stated in the passage?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dwarf · What happens: be, possess, state · To what, where: precise length, passage

This is exam question 3 of lesson 788 «Grimm, Snow-White and Rose-Red, part 64: two sisters befriend a bear and free a dwarf from a tree» 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	5 length	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 length	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 length	det
4	precise	precise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 length	amod
5	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 beard	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 beard	det
8	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 length	nmod
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 possesses	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 dwarf	det
11	dwarf	dwarf	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 possesses	nsubj
12	possesses	possess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 beard	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 stated	punct
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 stated	mark
15	stated	state	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 length	parataxis
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 passage	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 passage	det
18	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 stated	obl
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 length	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the precise length		of the beard	tree rules
2	possess	present	the dwarf				vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot
3	state speech: other	participle			the passage		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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

Short

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A yard long

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 yard	det
2	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 yard	advmod

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

Option 3

Three yards

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 yards	nummod
2	yards	yard	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

A foot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 foot	det
2	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	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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