Test 2 · ★ · Madame d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, Prince Mannikin, part 28: M…

Dead cool, but how many Princes snuffed it in the snow?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: many Princes · What happens: snuff · To what, where: it, snow

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1891 «Madame d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, Prince Mannikin, part 28: Mannikin wins the joust and the Ambassador's insolent letter arrives» 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	Dead	dead	ADV	_	2 cool	advmod
2	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 snuffed	punct
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 snuffed	cc
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 many	advmod
6	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Princes	amod
7	Princes	prince	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 snuffed	nsubj
8	snuffed	snuff	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 cool	parataxis
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 snuffed	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 snow	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 snow	det
12	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 snuffed	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 cool	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	snuff	past	many Princes	it		the snow			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 · ← Mova's choice

more than a thousand brave Princes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	4 thousand	advmod
2	than	than	ADP	_	1 more	fixed
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 thousand	det
4	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 Princes	nummod
5	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Princes	amod
6	Princes	prince	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

five hundred and twelve in all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hundred	compound
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 twelve	cc
4	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hundred	conj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 twelve	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

five hundred

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hundred	compound
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 4

three hundred

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hundred	compound
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word 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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