Test 8 · ★ · Lang's Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, part 1: a serpent w…

Mad, how many hands did he have to dodge in the first room?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: many hands · What happens: have, dodge · To what, where: first room

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1898 «Lang's Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, part 1: a serpent with a woman's head asks for help» 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	Mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 have	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 many	advmod
4	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hands	amod
5	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 have	nsubj
6	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 have	aux
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 have	nsubj
8	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Mad	conj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 dodge	mark
10	dodge	dodge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 have	xcomp
11	in	in	ADP	_	14 room	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 room	det
13	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	14 room	amod
14	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 dodge	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Mad	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past · do-support	many hands						tree rules
2	dodge	to-infinitive	many hands not said here			the first room			vn avoid-52 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent

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 · ✓ the right answer

Eight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Eight hands reaching out from the walls

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hands	nummod
2	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	reaching	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 hands	acl
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 reaching	compound:prt
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 walls	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 walls	det
7	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 reaching	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reach out	gerund	Eight hands not said here			the walls			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Eight, though he counted only six

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 counted	punct
3	though	though	SCONJ	_	5 counted	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 counted	nsubj
5	counted	count	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Eight	conj
6	only	only	ADV	_	7 six	advmod
7	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Eight	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	count	past	he						vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4

Seven

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Seven	seven	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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