Test 18 · ★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter VIII, part 1: The Queen's Cro…
★★★ The gardeners are Two, Five and Seven. Add their numbers and take away the number of soldiers who stay behind. What do you get?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★, you, soldiers · What happens: be, add, take away, stay, get · To what, where: Two, numbers, number
This is test 18 · ★ 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: ★★★ The gardeners are Two, Five and Seven.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Two | nsubj |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | ADP | _ | 5 gardeners | case |
| 4 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 gardeners | det |
| 5 | gardeners | gardener | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 ★ | nmod |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 Two | cop |
| 7 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Five | punct |
| 9 | Five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 Two | conj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 Seven | cc |
| 11 | Seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 Two | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 Two | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | ★ | Two | 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: Add their numbers and take away the number of soldiers who stay behind.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Add | add | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 numbers | nmod:poss |
| 3 | numbers | number | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Add | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 take | cc |
| 5 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Add | conj |
| 6 | away | away | ADP | _ | 5 take | compound:prt |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 number | det |
| 8 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 take | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 soldiers | case |
| 10 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 number | nmod |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 stay | nsubj |
| 12 | stay | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 soldiers | acl:relcl |
| 13 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 12 stay | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Add | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | add speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | gardeners's numbers | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Patient | ||||
| 2 | take away | infinitive | you not said here | the number of soldiers | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Theme | ||||
| 3 | stay | present | soldiers | behind property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Sentence 3: What do you get?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 get | obj |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 get | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 get | nsubj |
| 4 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 get | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present · do-support | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
14
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 14 | 14 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
11
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 11 | 11 | 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
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.
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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