Test 9 · ★ · Gods and Fighting Men, The Adventures of Mongan, part 38:…

How many cows was there, like, in total?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: many cows · What happens: be

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1070 «Gods and Fighting Men, The Adventures of Mongan, part 38: Mongan is raised, avenges his father, and sees the white cows» 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	3 cows	amod
3	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 there	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 there	cop
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 like	punct
7	like	like	INTJ	_	5 there	discourse
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 total	punct
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 total	case
10	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 there	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 there	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	many cows					there property	tree rules
2	be		many cows 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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

fifty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

fifty-two, I reckon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 two	punct
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 fifty	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 reckon	punct
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 reckon	nsubj
6	reckon	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 fifty	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	present	I						vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent

Option 3

ten

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

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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