Test 10 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds, part 28: Proserpi…

how many flowers did the big shrub have, like loads?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: many flowers, big shrub · What happens: do, have · To what, where: loads

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 2069 «Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds, part 28: Proserpina pulls up a strange shrub and is carried off by Pluto» 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 flowers	amod
3	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 shrub	det
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 shrub	amod
7	shrub	shrub	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 have	nsubj
8	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 loads	punct
10	like	like	ADP	_	11 loads	case
11	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 have	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	many flowers						tree rules
2	have	present	the big shrub	loads					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent load=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

around ninety

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	around	around	ADP	_	2 ninety	case
2	ninety	ninety	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

far more than a hundred blossoms on each stem

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 more	advmod
2	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	5 hundred	advmod
3	than	than	ADP	_	2 more	fixed
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 hundred	det
5	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 blossoms	nummod
6	blossoms	blossom	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 stem	case
8	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	9 stem	det
9	stem	stem	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 blossoms	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

above a hundred

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	above	above	ADP	_	3 hundred	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 hundred	det
3	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	nmod

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

Option 4

more than a thousand flowers and buds

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	5 flowers	nummod
5	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 buds	cc
7	buds	bud	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 flowers	conj

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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