Test 7 · ★ · Jack the Giant-Killer, Jack and the Beanstalk, part 33: Ja…

How many gold eggs did the hen drop when he kept saying Lay, like?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: many gold eggs, hen, he · What happens: do, drop, keep, say · To what, where: Lay · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1536 «Jack the Giant-Killer, Jack and the Beanstalk, part 33: Jack is hidden in the Giant's wardrobe and steals the golden-egg hen» 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	4 eggs	amod
3	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eggs	compound
4	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hen	det
7	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 drop	nsubj
8	drop	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 did	parataxis
9	when	when	SCONJ	_	11 kept	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 kept	nsubj
11	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 drop	advcl
12	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 kept	xcomp
13	Lay	Lay	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 saying	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 kept	punct
15	like	like	ADP	_	11 kept	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past	many gold eggs		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	drop	present	the hen		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	keep	past	he		tree rules
4	say speech: assert	gerund	he not said here	Lay	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent lay=Topic

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

four

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 2

a whole dozen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 dozen	det
2	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 dozen	amod
3	dozen	dozen	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

three

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 4

two

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word 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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