Test 5 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Little Soldier, part 38: John eats magic…

Hang on, how much were the plums, like, actually?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: hang on, be · To what, where: much plums

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1901 «Fairy Tales, The Little Soldier, part 38: John eats magic plums, sells them, and unmasks the horned Princess» 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	Hang	hang	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	1 Hang	compound:prt
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 plums	punct
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 much	advmod
5	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 plums	amod
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 plums	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 plums	det
8	plums	plum	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Hang	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 actually	punct
10	like	like	ADP	_	12 actually	case
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 like	punct
12	actually	actually	ADV	_	1 Hang	advmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Hang	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hang on	imperative	you not said here					actually property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past		the much plums					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

fifty pence each

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 pence	nummod
2	pence	pence	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	2 pence	nmod:unmarked

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

Option 2

fifty crowns each for the plums

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 crowns	nummod
2	crowns	crown	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 each	nsubj
3	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 plums	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 plums	det
6	plums	plum	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 each	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

fifty crowns each

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 crowns	nummod
2	crowns	crown	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	2 crowns	nmod:unmarked

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

Option 4

twenty crowns each

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 crowns	nummod
2	crowns	crown	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	2 crowns	nmod:unmarked

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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