Exam question 2 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Flax: the fir-tree burns, and…

Which of the following accurately identifies the number of garments produced from the completed linen?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: follow, identify, produce, complete · To what, where: number, garments, completed linen

This is exam question 2 of lesson 827 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Flax: the fir-tree burns, and the flax becomes linen and then paper» 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 identifies	nsubj
2	of	of	SCONJ	_	6 identifies	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 identifies	det
4	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 identifies	nsubj
5	accurately	accurately	ADV	_	6 identifies	advmod
6	identifies	identify	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 number	det
8	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 identifies	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 garments	case
10	garments	garment	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 number	nmod
11	produced	produce	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 garments	acl
12	from	from	ADP	_	15 linen	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 linen	det
14	completed	complete	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 linen	amod
15	linen	linen	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 produced	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 identifies	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	identify	present	the number of garments		accurately property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent number=Theme
3	produce	participle	garments not said here	the completed linen		vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: agent=Agent from linen=Material
4	complete	participle				vn complete-55.2 «NP V S_ING»: 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 · ✓ the right answer

twelve garments

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 garments	nummod
2	garments	garment	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

six shirts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 shirts	nummod
2	shirts	shirt	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

twelve dresses

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 dresses	nummod
2	dresses	dress	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

twelve

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	twelve	twelve	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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