Test 10 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Faithful John, John is turned to ston…

how much jam did the tailor buy, like a pound or what?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: much jam · What happens: do · To what, where: tailor buy

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1483 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Faithful John, John is turned to stone and brought back at a dreadful price» 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 much	advmod
2	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 jam	amod
3	jam	jam	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 buy	det
6	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 buy	compound
7	buy	buy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 pound	punct
9	like	like	ADP	_	11 pound	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 pound	det
11	pound	pound	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	parataxis
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 what	cc
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 pound	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	much jam	the tailor buy					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent buy=Eventuality

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

Half a pound, maybe a bit more

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	3 pound	det:predet
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 pound	det
3	pound	pound	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 more	punct
5	maybe	maybe	ADV	_	8 more	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bit	det
7	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 more	obl:unmarked
8	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 pound	acl:relcl

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Four ounces, maybe a quarter pound

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 ounces	nummod
2	ounces	ounce	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 pound	punct
4	maybe	maybe	ADV	_	7 pound	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 pound	det
6	quarter	quarter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pound	compound
7	pound	pound	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ounces	nmod

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Three ounces, perhaps a little more

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 ounces	nummod
2	ounces	ounce	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 ounces	punct
4	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	7 more	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 little	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 more	obl:unmarked
7	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 ounces	advmod

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

Option 4

A whole big jar of jam, more than three pounds in weight altogether

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 jar	det
2	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 jar	amod
3	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 jar	amod
4	jar	jar	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 jam	case
6	jam	jam	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 jar	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 pounds	punct
8	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	10 three	advmod
9	than	than	ADP	_	8 more	fixed
10	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 pounds	nummod
11	pounds	pound	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 jar	conj
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 weight	case
13	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 pounds	nmod
14	altogether	altogether	ADV	_	11 pounds	advmod

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

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