Test 17 · ★★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part 2: The Mock Turtle's…
★★★ Lessons were ten hours the first day, nine the next, and so on. How many hours in all over the first ten days?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★ Lessons · What happens: be · To what, where: ten hours
This is test 17 · ★★ of lesson 18 «Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part 2: The Mock Turtle's Story (school under the sea)» 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
Sentence 1: ★★★ Lessons were ten hours the first day, nine the next, and so on.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Lessons | nsubj |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Lessons | compound |
| 4 | Lessons | Lesson | PROPN | Number=Plur | 7 hours | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 hours | cop |
| 6 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 hours | nummod |
| 7 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 day | det |
| 9 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 10 day | amod |
| 10 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hours | nmod:unmarked |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 nine | punct |
| 12 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 hours | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 next | det |
| 14 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 nine | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 on | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 on | cc |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 on | advmod |
| 18 | on | on | ADV | _ | 12 nine | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 hours | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | ★ Lessons | ten hours | day | 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.
Sentence 2: How many hours in all over the first ten days?
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 hours | amod |
| 3 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 days | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 all | fixed |
| 5 | all | all | ADV | PronType=Tot | 10 days | advmod |
| 6 | over | over | ADP | _ | 10 days | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 days | det |
| 8 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 10 days | amod |
| 9 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 days | nummod |
| 10 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 days | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
7
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 7 | 7 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
3
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
55
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 55 | 55 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
50
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 50 | 50 | NUM | NumForm=Digit 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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