Exam question 3 · Andersen's Tales, Poultry Meg's Family, part 1: Marie and…

Which of the following accurately states the age of Marie Grubbe at the conclusion of the present passage?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: follow, state, conclude · To what, where: age, conclusion, present passage

This is exam question 3 of lesson 948 «Andersen's Tales, Poultry Meg's Family, part 1: Marie and Soren rob the birds' nests» 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	accurately	accurately	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 age	det
8	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 states	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 Marie	case
10	Marie	Marie	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 age	nmod
11	Grubbe	Grubbe	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Marie	flat
12	at	at	ADP	_	14 conclusion	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 conclusion	det
14	conclusion	conclusion	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 states	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	18 passage	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 passage	det
17	present	present	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 passage	amod
18	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 conclusion	nmod
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 states	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	state speech: other	present	the age of Marie	the conclusion of the present passage	accurately property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent age=Topic
3	conclude		the present passage			nom conclusion «cognition transitive»: of=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

Eleven years of age

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eleven	eleven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 years	nummod
2	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 age	case
4	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 years	nmod

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

Option 2

Ten years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 years	nummod
2	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Twelve years of age

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 years	nummod
2	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 age	case
4	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 years	nmod

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

Option 4

Nine years old

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 years	nummod
2	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 old	obl:unmarked
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	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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