Test 11 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Miller's Boy and the Nixy: the hunter is…

how many knights died, roughly?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: many knights · What happens: die

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1703 «Fairy Tales, The Miller's Boy and the Nixy: the hunter is pulled under the pond, and his wife wins him back» 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	3 knights	amod
3	knights	knight	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 died	nsubj
4	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 roughly	punct
6	roughly	roughly	ADV	_	4 died	advmod
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 died	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	past	many knights					roughly property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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

a few

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 few	det
2	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

loads, like a heap of bodies

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 heap	punct
3	like	like	ADP	_	5 heap	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 heap	det
5	heap	heap	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 loads	conj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 bodies	case
7	bodies	body	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 heap	nmod

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

Option 3

a handful of brave knights

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 handful	det
2	handful	handful	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 knights	case
4	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 knights	amod
5	knights	knight	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 handful	nmod

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

Option 4

about ten, all lost

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	about	about	ADV	_	2 ten	advmod
2	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 ten	punct
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 ten	nmod
5	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 all	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	participle							vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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