Test 11 · ★ · Danish Fairy Tales, Jesper and the Pearls, part 36: Jesper…

Hold up, how many grains did the king say there were?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, many grains · What happens: hold up, say, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1785 «Danish Fairy Tales, Jesper and the Pearls, part 36: Jesper helps the ants and is set to sort the grain» 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	Hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 Hold	compound:prt
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 grains	punct
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 many	advmod
5	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 grains	amod
6	grains	grain	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 say	nsubj
7	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 say	aux
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 king	det
9	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 say	nsubj
10	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Hold	parataxis
11	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	12 were	expl
12	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 say	ccomp
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Hold	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	hold up	imperative	you not said here		vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot
2	say speech: assert	past · do-support	many grains		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	be	past		there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

Four kinds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 kinds	nummod
2	kinds	kind	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Three kinds, one sack each

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 kinds	nummod
2	kinds	kind	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sack	punct
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 sack	nummod
5	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kinds	appos
6	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	2 kinds	appos

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Four kinds, one sack each

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 kinds	nummod
2	kinds	kind	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sack	punct
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 sack	nummod
5	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kinds	appos
6	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	2 kinds	appos

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

Option 4

Four sacks, all of wheat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 sacks	nummod
2	sacks	sack	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 all	punct
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 sacks	conj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 wheat	case
6	wheat	wheat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 all	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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