Test 8 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, Esben and the Witch, part 47…

Dead simple, how many brothers were there?

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

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1658 «Popular Tales from the Norse, Esben and the Witch, part 47: Esben steals the witch's lamp and is sent for a coverlet» 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	Dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 simple	amod
2	simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 brothers	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 brothers	punct
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 many	advmod
5	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 brothers	amod
6	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 there	nsubj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 there	cop
8	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 there	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	simple many brothers					there property	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

twelve brothers and eleven sisters in all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 brothers	nummod
2	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 sisters	cc
4	eleven	eleven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 sisters	nummod
5	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 brothers	conj
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 brothers	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

eleven

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

eleven brothers, all older than Esben

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	eleven	eleven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 brothers	nummod
2	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 older	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 older	punct
4	all	all	ADV	_	5 older	advmod
5	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
6	than	than	ADP	_	7 Esben	case
7	Esben	Esben	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 older	obl

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

Option 4

nine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nine	nine	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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