Exam question 4 · Andersen's Tales, The Porter's Son, part 157: George comes…

What salary was attached to George's new post as Professor?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: attach · To what, where: salary

This is exam question 4 of lesson 946 «Andersen's Tales, The Porter's Son, part 157: George comes back, asks for Emily's hand, and is refused» 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	DET	PronType=Int	2 salary	det
2	salary	salary	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 attached	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 attached	aux:pass
4	attached	attach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	9 post	case
6	George	George	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 post	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 George	case
8	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 post	amod
9	post	post	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 attached	obl
10	as	as	ADP	_	11 Professor	case
11	Professor	Professor	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 post	nmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 attached	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	attach	past · passive		what salary				to George's new post as Professor	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient to post=Co-Patient

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

Eighteen dollars a year, paid quarterly by the college treasurer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eighteen	eighteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 dollars	nummod
2	dollars	dollar	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 paid	nsubj:pass
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 year	det
4	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dollars	nmod:unmarked
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 paid	punct
6	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	quarterly	quarterly	ADV	_	6 paid	advmod
8	by	by	ADP	_	11 treasurer	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 treasurer	det
10	college	college	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 treasurer	compound
11	treasurer	treasurer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 paid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	participle · passive	the college treasurer	Eighteen dollars a year				quarterly property	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Asset

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Eighteen dollars a year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eighteen	eighteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 dollars	nummod
2	dollars	dollar	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 year	det
4	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dollars	nmod:unmarked

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

Option 3

Eighteen pounds a year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eighteen	eighteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 pounds	nummod
2	pounds	pound	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 year	det
4	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pounds	nmod:unmarked

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

Option 4

Eighteen dollars a year and rooms in the college

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eighteen	eighteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 dollars	nummod
2	dollars	dollar	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 year	det
4	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dollars	nmod:unmarked
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 rooms	cc
6	rooms	room	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 dollars	conj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 college	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 college	det
9	college	college	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dollars	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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