Test 8 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Coo-my-dove, part 1: Johnny-cake is e…

mate how many sons did Florentine and the girl have, like seven or nine?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate many sons, Florentine · What happens: do, have · To what, where: seven

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1966 «English Fairy Tales, Coo-my-dove, part 1: Johnny-cake is eaten, and the dove flies to the queen» 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	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sons	compound
2	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	3 many	advmod
3	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sons	amod
4	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Florentine	Florentine	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 have	nsubj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 girl	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 girl	det
9	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Florentine	conj
10	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 did	parataxis
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 seven	punct
12	like	like	ADP	_	13 seven	case
13	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 have	obj
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 nine	cc
15	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 seven	conj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	mate many sons						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	have	present	Florentine and the girl	seven					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seven=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 · ← Mova's choice

nine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

about seven or eight of them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	about	about	ADV	_	2 seven	advmod
2	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
3	or	or	CCONJ	_	4 eight	cc
4	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 seven	conj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 eight	nmod

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

Option 3

seven sons and three daughters

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 sons	nummod
2	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 daughters	cc
4	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 daughters	nummod
5	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sons	conj

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

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.

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