Test 11 · ★★ · Solomon and the Queen of Sheba: one story in many books, a…
★★★ In the Bible the queen gave Solomon 120 talents of gold. If she had given it in 4 equal loads on her camels' trains, and each load was split equally among 6 camels, how many talents would each camel carry?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★ ★ ★, ★, camel · What happens: give, split, carry · To what, where: 120 talents, Solomon, gold, 4 equal loads, load
This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 101 «Solomon and the Queen of Sheba: one story in many books, and the legends of the ring and the jinn» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school. 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
Sentence 1: ★★★ In the Bible the queen gave Solomon 120 talents of gold.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ★ | compound |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ★ | compound |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gave | nsubj |
| 4 | In | in | ADP | _ | 6 Bible | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Bible | det |
| 6 | Bible | Bible | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ★ | nmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 queen | det |
| 8 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gave | nsubj |
| 9 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Solomon | Solomon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 gave | iobj |
| 11 | 120 | 120 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 talents | nummod |
| 12 | talents | talent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 gave | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 gold | case |
| 14 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 talents | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 gave | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | ★ ★ ★ in the Bible | 120 talents of gold | Solomon | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent solomon=Recipient talent=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.
Sentence 2: If she had given it in 4 equal loads on her camels' trains, and each load was split equally among 6 camels, how many talents would each camel carry?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 given | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 given | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 given | aux |
| 4 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 32 carry | advcl |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 given | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 loads | case |
| 7 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 loads | nummod |
| 8 | equal | equal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 loads | amod |
| 9 | loads | load | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 given | obl |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 trains | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 camels | nmod:poss |
| 12 | camels | camel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 trains | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 12 camels | case |
| 14 | trains | train | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 given | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 split | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 split | cc |
| 17 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 load | det |
| 18 | load | load | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 split | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 split | aux:pass |
| 20 | split | split | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 carry | advcl |
| 21 | equally | equally | ADV | _ | 20 split | advmod |
| 22 | among | among | ADP | _ | 24 camels | case |
| 23 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 24 camels | nummod |
| 24 | camels | camel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 split | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 talents | punct |
| 26 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 27 many | advmod |
| 27 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 talents | amod |
| 28 | talents | talent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 camels | conj |
| 29 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 carry | aux |
| 30 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 31 camel | det |
| 31 | camel | camel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 carry | nsubj |
| 32 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 33 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 32 carry | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | ★ | gold | 4 equal loads | on ★'s camels's trains | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: agent=Agent it=Theme on train=Asset | ||
| 2 | split | past · passive | each load | among 6 camels and many talents; equally property | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | carry | would | each camel | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
20
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
24
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 24 | 24 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
30
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 30 | 30 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
5
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit 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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