Test 11 · ★ · Deirdre, Becfola's Wooing, part 21: Becfola sneaks home an…

How many dead guys were there, anyway?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: many dead guys · What happens: be

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1053 «Deirdre, Becfola's Wooing, part 21: Becfola sneaks home and the king turns her scolding into a joke» 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 many	advmod
2	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 guys	amod
3	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 guys	amod
4	guys	guy	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 there	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 there	cop
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 anyway	punct
8	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	6 there	conj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 there	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	many dead guys					there property	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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

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

Eight, counting the one still standing on the grass

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 counting	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Eight	punct
3	counting	count	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 one	det
5	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 counting	obj
6	still	still	ADV	_	7 standing	advmod
7	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 counting	conj
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 grass	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 grass	det
10	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 standing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	count	gerund	Eight	the one					vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
2	stand	gerund	Eight not said here			the grass	still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on grass=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Seven

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 4

Eleven

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eleven	eleven	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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