Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Gingerbread Cakes, part 226: Knud wa…

Did the houses in Copenhagen have a lot of stairs?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: houses · What happens: have · To what, where: lot

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1015 «Andersen's Tales, The Gingerbread Cakes, part 226: Knud walks to Copenhagen to visit Joanna» 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 have	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 houses	det
3	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 have	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 Copenhagen	case
5	Copenhagen	Copenhagen	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 houses	nmod
6	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 lot	det
8	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 have	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 stairs	case
10	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 lot	nmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 have	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past · do-support	the houses in Copenhagen	a lot of stairs					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Patient

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

yep, lots

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	3 lots	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

yep, they lived on top of shops

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 lived	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lived	nsubj
4	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 top	case
6	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lived	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 shops	case
8	shops	shop	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 top	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	they			top of shops			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on top=Location

Option 3

nah, just one floor each

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 floor	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	just	just	ADV	_	5 floor	advmod
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 floor	nummod
5	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	5 floor	nmod:unmarked

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

yep, people lived over each other

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 lived	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lived	nsubj
4	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	over	over	ADP	_	6 each	case
6	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	4 lived	obl
7	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 each	fixed

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	people			each			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over each=Location

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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