Exam question 4 · Moses and the Exodus

State the duration of the sojourn of the Israelites in the wilderness prior to their entry into the Promised Land.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Israelites · What happens: state, promise, sojourn, enter · To what, where: duration, wilderness, Israelites

This is exam question 4 of lesson 6 «Moses and the Exodus» 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	State	state	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 duration	det
3	duration	duration	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 State	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 sojourn	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sojourn	det
6	sojourn	sojourn	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 duration	nmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 Israelites	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Israelites	det
9	Israelites	Israelite	PROPN	Number=Plur	6 sojourn	nmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 wilderness	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 wilderness	det
12	wilderness	wilderness	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 State	obl
13	prior	prior	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	16 entry	case
14	to	to	ADP	_	13 prior	fixed
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 entry	nmod:poss
16	entry	entry	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 State	obl
17	into	into	ADP	_	20 Land	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Land	det
19	Promised	promise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 Land	amod
20	Land	Land	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 State	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 State	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	state speech: other	imperative	you not said here	the duration of the sojourn of the Israelites	the wilderness	prior Israelites's entry; into the Promised Land	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent duration=Topic
2	promise speech: promise	participle					vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	sojourn			the Israelites			nom sojourn «act transitive»: of=patient
4	enter		Israelites = israelite				nom entry «communication transitive»: poss=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

Four hundred years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hundred	compound
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 years	nummod
3	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

Forty days

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 days	nummod
2	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Forty years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Forty	forty	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 4

Seven years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Seven	seven	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.

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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