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Exam question 1 · Trick questions that catch quick thinkers

It is given that a farmer possesses seventeen sheep and that all but nine of them abscond. Ascertain the number of sheep remaining in the farmer's possession.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: farmer, you, sheep · What happens: give, possess, abscond, ascertain, remain · To what, where: It, seventeen sheep, number, possession

This is exam question 1 of lesson 181 «Trick questions that catch quick thinkers» of the world 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

Sentence 1: It is given that a farmer possesses seventeen sheep and that all but nine of them abscond.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 given	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 given	aux:pass
3	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 possesses	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 farmer	det
6	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 possesses	nsubj
7	possesses	possess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 given	advcl
8	seventeen	seventeen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 sheep	nummod
9	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 possesses	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 abscond	cc
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 abscond	mark
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 abscond	advmod
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 nine	cc
14	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 all	conj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 them	case
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 nine	nmod
17	abscond	abscond	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 possesses	conj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 given	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present · passive		It					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	possess	present	a farmer	seventeen sheep					vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot sheep=Theme
3	abscond	present	a farmer not said here						tree rules

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: Ascertain the number of sheep remaining in the farmer's possession.

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 sheep	case
5	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 number	nmod
6	remaining	remain	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 sheep	acl
7	in	in	ADP	_	11 possession	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 farmer	det
9	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 possession	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 farmer	case
11	possession	possession	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 remaining	obl
12	.	.	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 sheep					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Topic
2	remain	gerund	sheep not said here			the farmer's possession			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in possession=Location
3	possess		the farmer						nom possession «act transitive»: poss=agent

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Twenty-six

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 six	punct
3	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Twenty	conj

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

Option 2

Seventeen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

Eight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Nine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nine	nine	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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