Exam question 2 · Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 2: the B…

Ascertain the number of Djinns summoned by Suleiman-bin-Daoud for the Butterfly's sake.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: ascertain, summon · To what, where: number, Djinns

This is exam question 2 of lesson 97 «Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 2: the Butterfly stamps, Balkis is wise, and the book ends» 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	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 number	det
3	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Djinns	case
5	Djinns	djinn	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 number	nmod
6	summoned	summon	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 Djinns	acl
7	by	by	ADP	_	12 Daoud	case
8	Suleiman	Suleiman	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Daoud	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 Suleiman	punct
10	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 Suleiman	flat
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 bin	punct
12	Daoud	Daoud	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 summoned	obl
13	for	for	ADP	_	17 sake	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Butterfly	det
15	Butterfly	Butterfly	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 sake	nmod:poss
16	's	's	PART	_	15 Butterfly	case
17	sake	sake	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 summoned	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the number of Djinns					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Topic
2	summon	participle		Djinns not said here				by Suleiman Daoud; for the Butterfly's sake	vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: 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

Seventeen thousand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Seventeen	seventeen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Seventeen	list

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Four

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 3

Two

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 4

One

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	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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