Test 9 · ★ · Fairy Book, Prince Vivien, part 53: a hungry prince, a pat…

How many bats came out, like loads?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: many bats · What happens: come out

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1916 «Fairy Book, Prince Vivien, part 53: a hungry prince, a patient old woman, and a bell at the castle» 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 bats	amod
3	bats	bat	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	out	out	ADV	_	4 came	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 loads	punct
7	like	like	ADP	_	8 loads	case
8	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 came	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come out	past	many bats					like loads; out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient

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

Like, a few hundred, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Like	like	INTJ	_	5 hundred	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Like	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 hundred	det
4	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hundred	amod
5	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 mate	punct
7	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hundred	vocative

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Loads, like proper thousands, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 thousands	punct
3	like	like	ADP	_	5 thousands	case
4	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 thousands	amod
5	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Loads	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 mate	punct
7	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Loads	conj

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

Option 3

None at all, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	None	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 None	nmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 mate	punct
5	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 None	conj

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

Option 4

Just two little ones, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Just	just	ADV	_	4 ones	advmod
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 ones	nummod
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 ones	amod
4	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 mate	punct
6	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ones	appos

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

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