Test 8 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, East of the Sun and West of…

how many tallow drops got on that shirt?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: many, drops · What happens: tallow, get · To what, where: shirt

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1420 «Popular Tales from the Norse, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, part 7: the North Wind carries her to the castle, and the shirt goes wrong» 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 tallow	nsubj
3	tallow	tallow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	drops	drop	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 got	nsubj
5	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 tallow	ccomp
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 shirt	case
7	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 shirt	det
8	shirt	shirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 got	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 tallow	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tallow	present	many						tree rules
2	get	past	drops			that shirt			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on shirt=Source

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 · ✓ the right answer

Three, like exactly three

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	_	5 three	punct
3	like	like	ADP	_	5 three	case
4	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	5 three	advmod
5	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Three	conj

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Like five, I think they said

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Like	like	ADP	_	2 five	case
2	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 think	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 five	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 think	nsubj
5	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 said	nsubj
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 think	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	I					like five	vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	they						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Three, like exactly three, right on the front of the shirt

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	_	5 three	punct
3	like	like	ADP	_	5 three	case
4	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	5 three	advmod
5	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Three	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 front	punct
7	right	right	ADV	_	10 front	advmod
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 front	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 front	det
10	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 three	acl:relcl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 shirt	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 shirt	det
13	shirt	shirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 front	nmod

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

Option 4

Two or three, roughly speaking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	or	or	CCONJ	_	3 three	cc
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Two	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 speaking	punct
5	roughly	roughly	ADV	_	6 speaking	advmod
6	speaking	speak	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Two	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	gerund						roughly property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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