Exam question 1 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Goloshes of Fortune, part 53:…
Which of the following correctly states the number of persons with whom the student was confined within the diligence?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: follow, state, confine · To what, where: number, student
This is exam question 1 of lesson 842 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Goloshes of Fortune, part 53: the clerk wakes at his table; the student's goloshes carry him to Italy» 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 states | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 6 states | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 states | det |
| 4 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 states | nsubj |
| 5 | correctly | correctly | ADV | _ | 6 states | advmod |
| 6 | states | state | 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 states | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 persons | case |
| 10 | persons | person | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 number | nmod |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 whom | case |
| 12 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 persons | nmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 student | det |
| 14 | student | student | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 confined | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 confined | aux:pass |
| 16 | confined | confine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 whom | acl:relcl |
| 17 | within | within | ADP | _ | 19 diligence | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 diligence | det |
| 19 | diligence | diligence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 confined | obl |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 states | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | state speech: other | present | the number of persons with the number of persons with the number | correctly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent number=Topic | ||||
| 3 | confine | past · passive | the student | within the diligence | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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
nine companions
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 companions | nummod |
| 2 | companions | companion | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
eight others
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 others | nummod |
| 2 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
eight other sleepy passengers in the diligence
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 passengers | nummod |
| 2 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 passengers | amod |
| 3 | sleepy | sleepy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 passengers | amod |
| 4 | passengers | passenger | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 diligence | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 diligence | det |
| 7 | diligence | diligence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 passengers | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
eight other persons in the coach
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 persons | nummod |
| 2 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 persons | amod |
| 3 | persons | person | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 coach | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 coach | det |
| 6 | coach | coach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 persons | nmod |
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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