Test 2 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Snowdrop, part 75: the peddler's lace…
Mate, how many little blokes lived in that mountain house?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mate · What happens: live · To what, where: mountain house
This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1578 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Snowdrop, part 75: the peddler's lace and the poisonous comb» 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 | Mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lived | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 blokes | punct |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 many | advmod |
| 4 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 blokes | amod |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 blokes | amod |
| 6 | blokes | bloke | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Mate | conj |
| 7 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 house | case |
| 9 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 house | det |
| 10 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 house | compound |
| 11 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lived | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 lived | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | Mate and many little blokes | that mountain house | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location |
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
Seven, mate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 mate | nummod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Seven | punct |
| 3 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Loads, mate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Loads | load | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 mate | punct |
| 3 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Loads | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Seven of them, mate, easy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 them | case |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Seven | nmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 mate | punct |
| 5 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Seven | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 easy | punct |
| 7 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 mate | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Six of them, mate, easy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 them | case |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Six | nmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 mate | punct |
| 5 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Six | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 easy | punct |
| 7 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 mate | conj |
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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