Test 5 · ★ · World Tales, How Geirald The Coward Was Punished, part 1:…

how many robbers were there, like, roughly?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: many robbers · What happens: be

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1219 «World Tales, How Geirald The Coward Was Punished, part 1: two friends ride off, Rosald wins the fight, and Geirald takes the glory» 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 robbers	amod
3	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 there	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur 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	_	9 roughly	punct
9	roughly	roughly	ADV	_	5 there	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 there	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	many robbers					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

a dozen or more, all hidden in the trees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 dozen	det
2	dozen	dozen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 hidden	nsubj
3	or	or	CCONJ	_	4 more	cc
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 dozen	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 hidden	punct
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 hidden	det
7	hidden	hidden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 trees	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 trees	det
10	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 hidden	obl

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

Option 2

maybe a dozen men

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	maybe	maybe	ADV	_	3 dozen	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 dozen	det
3	dozen	dozen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 men	nummod
4	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

twelve of them, with horses and bows too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 horses	nummod
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 them	case
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 twelve	nmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 horses	punct
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 horses	case
6	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 bows	cc
8	bows	bow	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 horses	conj
9	too	too	ADV	_	6 horses	advmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

twelve of them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 them	case
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 twelve	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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