Test 9 · ★ · Lang's Fairy Book, The Prince and the Doves: the prince es…

How many doves were up for sale, like three?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: many doves · What happens: be

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1813 «Lang's Fairy Book, The Prince and the Doves: the prince escapes his father's trap, forgets his bride, and wins her 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 doves	amod
3	doves	dove	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 sale	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sale	cop
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 were	compound:prt
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 sale	case
7	sale	sale	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 three	punct
9	like	like	ADP	_	10 three	case
10	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 sale	appos
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 sale	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	many doves					for sale	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

Four

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2 · ✓ 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 3

Three, not more, said the sisters

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 said	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 more	advmod
4	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 said	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 more	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sisters	det
8	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 said	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Three	the sisters					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sister=Topic

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Three doves, sold cheap at the inn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 doves	nummod
2	doves	dove	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sold	punct
4	sold	sell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 doves	acl
5	cheap	cheap	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sold	xcomp
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 inn	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 inn	det
8	inn	inn	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sold	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	participle		Three doves not said here		the inn		cheap property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent at inn=Asset

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