Test 9 · ★ · Crimson Fairy Book, The Two Caskets, part 16: the girl fal…

roughly how many cats turned up, bruv?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: many cats · What happens: turn up · To what, where: bruv

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1150 «Crimson Fairy Book, The Two Caskets, part 16: the girl falls down the well and is kind to a fence, an oven and a cow, then finds work on a farm» 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	roughly	roughly	ADV	_	5 turned	advmod
2	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	3 many	advmod
3	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cats	amod
4	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 turned	nsubj
5	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 turned	compound:prt
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 bruv	punct
8	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 turned	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 turned	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn up	past	many cats	bruv				roughly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

a little crowd

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 crowd	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 crowd	amod
3	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

a whole circle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 circle	det
2	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 circle	amod
3	circle	circle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

a whole circle of them sitting round the girl

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 circle	det
2	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 circle	amod
3	circle	circle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 circle	nmod
6	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 circle	acl
7	round	round	ADP	_	9 girl	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 girl	det
9	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sitting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	gerund	a whole circle of them not said here					round the girl	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

a whole circle of fat grey cats around the well

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 circle	det
2	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 circle	amod
3	circle	circle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cats	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 fat	case
5	fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 circle	nmod
6	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 cats	amod
7	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
8	around	around	ADP	_	10 well	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 well	det
10	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cats	nmod

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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