Test 6 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, The Prince and Katar, part 31: the pri…

Dude, how many sepoys came along for the ride?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dude · What happens: come along

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1847 «Indian Fairy Tales, The Prince and Katar, part 31: the prince proves he is the husband, then reveals he is the King's son» 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	Dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sepoys	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 many	advmod
4	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sepoys	amod
5	sepoys	sepoy	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Dude	conj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	along	along	ADV	_	6 came	advmod
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 ride	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 ride	det
10	ride	ride	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come along	past	Dude and many sepoys					for the ride; along property	vn escape-51.1-1 «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 · ← Mova's choice

Few

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Few	few	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Some soldiers for the trip

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 soldiers	det
2	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 trip	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 trip	det
5	trip	trip	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 soldiers	nmod

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

Option 3

Ten men

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 men	nummod
2	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A great many, to guard them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 many	det
2	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 many	amod
3	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 guard	punct
5	to	to	PART	_	6 guard	mark
6	guard	guard	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 many	advcl
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 guard	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	guard	to-infinitive		them = they					vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary

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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