Exam question 4 · Alice's Victorian world: tea, croquet, pocket watches, shi…

Ascertain the number of shillings that constituted one pound in the currency used prior to 1971.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, shillings · What happens: ascertain, constitute, use · To what, where: number, one pound, currency

This is exam question 4 of lesson 81 «Alice's Victorian world: tea, croquet, pocket watches, shillings and chimney sweeps» of the history 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 shillings	case
5	shillings	shilling	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 used	nsubj
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 constituted	nsubj
7	constituted	constitute	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 shillings	acl
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 pound	nummod
9	pound	pound	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 constituted	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 currency	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 currency	det
12	currency	currency	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 constituted	obl
13	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 number	acl:relcl
14	prior	prior	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	13 used	xcomp
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 1971	case
16	1971	1971	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	14 prior	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the number			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Topic
2	constitute	participle	shillings	one pound	the currency		vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme pound=Pivot
3	use	past	shillings	the number not said here		prior property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=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

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.

Option 2

One hundred

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 One	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Twenty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 4

Ten

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ten	ten	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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