Test 16 · ★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter VIII, part 1: The Queen's Cro…
★★★ Count the procession: ten soldiers, ten courtiers, ten royal children, then the Knave, and the King and Queen. Not counting the guests, how many is that?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: ★ · What happens: count, not count, be · To what, where: procession, guests, that
This is test 16 · ★ of lesson 15 «Alice in Wonderland, chapter VIII, part 1: The Queen's Croquet-Ground (painting the roses red)» 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
Sentence 1: ★★★ Count the procession: ten soldiers, ten courtiers, ten royal children, then the Knave, and the King and Queen.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Count | nsubj |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | PUNCT | _ | 1 ★ | punct |
| 4 | Count | count | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 procession | det |
| 6 | procession | procession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Count | obj |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 soldiers | punct |
| 8 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 soldiers | nummod |
| 9 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 Count | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 courtiers | punct |
| 11 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 courtiers | nummod |
| 12 | courtiers | courtier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 soldiers | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 children | punct |
| 14 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 children | nummod |
| 15 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 children | amod |
| 16 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 soldiers | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Knave | punct |
| 18 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 Knave | advmod |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Knave | det |
| 20 | Knave | Knave | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 soldiers | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 King | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 King | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 King | det |
| 24 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Count | parataxis |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 Queen | cc |
| 26 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 King | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 Count | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | count | infinitive | ★ | the procession | 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.
Sentence 2: Not counting the guests, how many is that?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 counting | advmod |
| 2 | counting | count | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 guests | det |
| 4 | guests | guest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 counting | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 many | punct |
| 6 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 many | advmod |
| 7 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 guests | amod |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 that | cop |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 counting | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 counting | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not count | gerund | the guests | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guest=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | that | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
33
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 33 | 33 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
9
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 9 | 9 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
3
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
31
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 31 | 31 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
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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