Test 8 · ★ · White Cat, Princess Felicia: a magic wedding and a palace…
So the youngest son bought, like, a bajillion dogs in a forest?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: youngest son · What happens: buy
This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1450 «White Cat, Princess Felicia: a magic wedding and a palace for Bruno» 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 | _ | 5 bought | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 son | det |
| 3 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 son | amod |
| 4 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bought | nsubj |
| 5 | bought | buy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 dogs | punct |
| 7 | like | like | INTJ | _ | 11 dogs | discourse |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 like | punct |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 dogs | det |
| 10 | bajillion | bajillion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 dogs | compound |
| 11 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 bought | conj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 forest | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 forest | det |
| 14 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 dogs | nmod |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 bought | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | buy | participle | the youngest son | vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: 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 · ← Mova's choice
Thousands of dogs bought in a forest, wild
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 wild | obl |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 dogs | case |
| 3 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Thousands | nmod |
| 4 | bought | buy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 dogs | acl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 forest | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 forest | det |
| 7 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bought | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Thousands | punct |
| 9 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | buy | participle | dogs not said here | a forest | vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Thousands, that's crazy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 crazy | punct |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 crazy | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 crazy | cop |
| 5 | crazy | crazy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Thousands | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Thousands | Thousands not said here | crazy property | tree rules |
Option 3
Many dogs, that's odd
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 dogs | amod |
| 2 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 odd | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 dogs | punct |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 odd | nsubj |
| 5 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 odd | cop |
| 6 | odd | odd | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Many dogs | odd property | tree rules |
Option 4
Like a hundred, wow
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 3 hundred | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 hundred | det |
| 3 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 hundred | punct |
| 5 | wow | wow | INTJ | _ | 3 hundred | discourse |
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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