Exam question 2 · The miracles of Jesus
Ascertain the quantity of provisions furnished by a boy for the feeding of five thousand persons.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, thousand persons · What happens: ascertain, furnish, feed · To what, where: quantity, provisions
This is exam question 2 of lesson 16 «The miracles of Jesus» of the religion ethics 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 quantity | det |
| 3 | quantity | quantity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ascertain | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 provisions | case |
| 5 | provisions | provision | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 quantity | nmod |
| 6 | furnished | furnish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 provisions | acl |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 boy | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 boy | det |
| 9 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 furnished | obl:agent |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 feeding | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 feeding | det |
| 12 | feeding | feeding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 furnished | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 persons | case |
| 14 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 thousand | compound |
| 15 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 persons | nummod |
| 16 | persons | person | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 feeding | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | 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 quantity of provisions | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quantity=Topic | ||||
| 2 | furnish | participle | provisions not said here | for the feeding of thousand persons | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent for feeding=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | feed | thousand persons | nom feeding «act intransitive»: of=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
Two loaves and five fish
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 loaves | nummod |
| 2 | loaves | loaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 fish | cc |
| 4 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 fish | nummod |
| 5 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 loaves | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Five thousand loaves and fish
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 thousand | compound |
| 2 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 loaves | nummod |
| 3 | loaves | loaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 fish | cc |
| 5 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 loaves | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Five loaves and two fish
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 loaves | nummod |
| 2 | loaves | loaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 fish | cc |
| 4 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 fish | nummod |
| 5 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 loaves | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Twelve loaves and seven fish
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 loaves | nummod |
| 2 | loaves | loaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 fish | cc |
| 4 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 fish | nummod |
| 5 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 loaves | conj |
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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