Test 6 · ★ · Hemgard Tales, How Brave Walter Hunted Wolves, part 12: Wa…

Dude, how many wolves reckons Walter he can take on alone?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dude, Walter · What happens: reckon, take on · To what, where: Walter

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1287 «Hemgard Tales, How Brave Walter Hunted Wolves, part 12: Walter sets off alone into the wood with his toys» 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	Dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 reckons	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 wolves	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 many	advmod
4	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 wolves	amod
5	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Dude	conj
6	reckons	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	Walter	Walter	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 reckons	obj
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 take	nsubj
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 take	aux
10	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 reckons	ccomp
11	on	on	ADP	_	10 take	compound:prt
12	alone	alone	ADV	_	10 take	advmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 reckons	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	present	Dude and many wolves	Walter					tree rules
2	take on	can	Walter					alone property	vn adopt-93.1 «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

Three full-grown wolves at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 wolves	nummod
2	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 grown	amod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 full	punct
4	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 wolves	amod
5	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 once	case
7	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 wolves	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	participle							vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

As many as three or four wolves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	As	as	ADV	_	2 many	advmod
2	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	as	as	ADP	_	7 wolves	case
4	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 wolves	nummod
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 four	cc
6	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 three	conj
7	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 many	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Three

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

Four

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

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