Test 13 · ★ · Perrault's Tales, Little Thumb, part 13: lost again, birds…

hold up, how many brothers did little thumb have, like a whole crew?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, many brothers, little thumb · What happens: hold up, do, have

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1088 «Perrault's Tales, Little Thumb, part 13: lost again, birds eat the bread, a storm in the night» 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	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 hold	compound:prt
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 did	punct
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 many	advmod
5	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 brothers	amod
6	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 did	nsubj
7	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 hold	parataxis
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 thumb	amod
9	thumb	thumb	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 have	nsubj
10	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 did	ccomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 crew	punct
12	like	like	ADP	_	15 crew	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 crew	det
14	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 crew	amod
15	crew	crew	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 have	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 hold	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	hold up	imperative	you not said here		vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot
2	do	past	many brothers		tree rules
3	have	present	little thumb	like a whole crew	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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

six older brothers and one little sister, eight children in total

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 brothers	nummod
2	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 brothers	amod
3	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 sister	cc
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 sister	nummod
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sister	amod
7	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 brothers	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 children	punct
9	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 children	nummod
10	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 brothers	conj
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 total	case
12	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 children	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

six older brothers, seven boys total

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 brothers	nummod
2	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 brothers	amod
3	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 boys	punct
5	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 boys	nummod
6	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 brothers	nmod
7	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 boys	amod

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

Option 3

six older brothers who all worked in the forest with their father every day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 brothers	nummod
2	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 brothers	amod
3	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 worked	obl
5	all	all	ADV	_	6 worked	advmod
6	worked	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 brothers	acl:relcl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 forest	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 forest	det
9	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 worked	obl
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 father	case
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 father	nmod:poss
12	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 worked	obl
13	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	14 day	det
14	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 worked	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	past		six older brothers			day	with brothers's father; in the forest; all property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in forest=Theme

Option 4

five older brothers, six boys total

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 brothers	nummod
2	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 brothers	amod
3	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 boys	punct
5	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 boys	nummod
6	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 brothers	nmod
7	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 boys	amod

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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