Test 11 · ★ · Myths and Legends of the Sioux, How Ball-carrier Finished…

So how many bird shapes did he try in the race?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: many bird shapes · What happens: try · To what, where: race

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1211 «Myths and Legends of the Sioux, How Ball-carrier Finished His Task, part 12: Lung-Woman is scalded and the Bad One drowns» 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	So	so	ADV	_	8 try	advmod
2	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	3 many	advmod
3	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 shapes	amod
4	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shapes	compound
5	shapes	shape	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 try	nsubj
6	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 try	aux
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 try	nsubj
8	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 race	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 race	det
11	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 try	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 try	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	past · do-support	many bird shapes			the race			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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

Around six different birds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Around	around	ADV	_	2 six	advmod
2	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 birds	nummod
3	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 birds	amod
4	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

Three, maybe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Three	punct
3	maybe	maybe	ADV	_	1 Three	advmod

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

Option 3

Maybe four or five kinds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Maybe	maybe	ADV	_	5 kinds	advmod
2	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 kinds	nummod
3	or	or	CCONJ	_	4 five	cc
4	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 four	conj
5	kinds	kind	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Like four or five of them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Like	like	ADP	_	2 four	case
2	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
3	or	or	CCONJ	_	4 five	cc
4	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 four	conj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 five	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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