Test 8 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, Farmer Weatherbeard: the man…

the sisters, how many were there, like proper?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sisters · What happens: be

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1570 «Popular Tales from the Norse, Farmer Weatherbeard: the man searches for Jack, and the Eagle carries him to the farmer's house» 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sisters	det
2	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 there	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 there	punct
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 many	advmod
5	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 there	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 there	cop
7	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 proper	punct
9	like	like	ADP	_	10 proper	case
10	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 there	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 there	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the sisters					there property	tree rules
2	be		the sisters not said here						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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

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 2 · ✓ the right answer

three sisters in total

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 sisters	nummod
2	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 total	case
4	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sisters	nmod

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

Option 3

five sisters altogether

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 sisters	nummod
2	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	altogether	altogether	ADV	_	2 sisters	advmod

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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