Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Blockhead-Hans: he wins the Prince…

How many reporters were by each window, fr?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: many reporters · What happens: be

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1748 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Blockhead-Hans: he wins the Princess with a crow, a shoe and mud» 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 reporters	amod
3	reporters	reporter	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 window	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 window	cop
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 window	case
6	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	7 window	det
7	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 fr	punct
9	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 window	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 window	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	many reporters					by each window and fr	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 · ✓ 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 2

seven

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

fourteen reporters all writing down the words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fourteen	fourteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 reporters	nummod
2	reporters	reporter	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 writing	nsubj
3	all	all	ADV	_	4 writing	advmod
4	writing	write	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	down	down	ADP	_	4 writing	compound:prt
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 words	det
7	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 writing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write down	gerund	fourteen reporters	the words				all property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme

Option 4

twelve reporters, each with a pencil

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 reporters	nummod
2	reporters	reporter	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 each	punct
4	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	2 reporters	appos
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 pencil	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 pencil	det
7	pencil	pencil	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 each	nmod

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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