Test 17 · ★★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 2: The mushroom, the…
★★★ Count the places the Pigeon names for keeping its eggs safe: roots of trees, banks, hedges, and finally the highest tree. How many is that?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★, Pigeon names, that · What happens: count, keep, be · To what, where: places, eggs
This is test 17 · ★★ of lesson 10 «Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 2: The mushroom, the long neck and the Pigeon» of the books 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: ★★★ Count the places the Pigeon names for keeping its eggs safe: roots of trees, banks, hedges, and finally the highest tree.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Count | nsubj |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | PUNCT | _ | 1 ★ | punct |
| 4 | Count | count | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 places | det |
| 6 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 Count | obj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 names | det |
| 8 | Pigeon | Pigeon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 names | compound |
| 9 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 places | nmod |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 11 keeping | mark |
| 11 | keeping | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 names | acl |
| 12 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 eggs | nmod:poss |
| 13 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 keeping | obj |
| 14 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 keeping | xcomp |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 roots | punct |
| 16 | roots | root | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 names | conj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 trees | case |
| 18 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 roots | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 banks | punct |
| 20 | banks | bank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 roots | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 hedges | punct |
| 22 | hedges | hedge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 roots | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 tree | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 tree | cc |
| 25 | finally | finally | ADV | _ | 28 tree | advmod |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 tree | det |
| 27 | highest | high | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 28 tree | amod |
| 28 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 roots | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 Count | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | count | infinitive | ★ | the places the Pigeon names and roots of trees and banks and hedges and the highest tree | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme | ||||
| 2 | keep | gerund | the Pigeon names and roots of trees and banks and hedges and the highest tree not said here | its eggs | safe property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=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: How many is that?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 many | advmod |
| 2 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 many | cop |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 many | nsubj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 many | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | that | many property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
Four
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
One
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Five, if you also count the hedges and the banks separately
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 count | punct |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 count | mark |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 count | nsubj |
| 5 | also | also | ADV | _ | 6 count | advmod |
| 6 | count | count | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Five | conj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 hedges | det |
| 8 | hedges | hedge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 count | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 banks | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 banks | det |
| 11 | banks | bank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 hedges | conj |
| 12 | separately | separately | ADV | _ | 6 count | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | count | present | you | the hedges and the banks | separately property | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hedge=Theme |
Option 4
Two
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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