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Test 16 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 3: Mr. Badger (t…

★★★ The Otter «had to cuff his head once or twice». Count all the times he hits the rabbit in his story, if «once or twice» means at most two.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★ · What happens: have, cuff, count, hit, mean · To what, where: head, rabbit, story, two, most

This is test 16 · ★★★ of lesson 39 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 3: Mr. Badger (the Otter comes through the snow, and the best home is underground)» 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

Sentence 1: ★★★ The Otter «had to cuff his head once or twice».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 had	nsubj
2	★	★	X	Foreign=Yes	1 ★	dep
3	★	★	ADP	_	5 Otter	case
4	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Otter	det
5	Otter	Otter	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 ★	nmod
6	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 had	punct
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 cuff	mark
9	cuff	cuff	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 had	xcomp
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 head	nmod:poss
11	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cuff	obj
12	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	9 cuff	advmod
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 twice	cc
14	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	12 once	conj
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 cuff	punct
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 had	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	past	★ ★ the Otter						tree rules
2	cuff in a quote	to-infinitive	★ ★ the Otter not said here	★'s head				once property	vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=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.

Sentence 2: Count all the times he hits the rabbit in his story, if «once or twice» means at most two.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Count	count	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	19 means	nsubj
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 times	det
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 times	det
4	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Count	obj
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 hits	nsubj
6	hits	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 times	acl:relcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 rabbit	det
8	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hits	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 story	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 story	nmod:poss
11	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hits	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 once	punct
13	if	if	SCONJ	_	15 once	mark
14	«	«	PUNCT	_	15 once	punct
15	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	1 Count	advmod
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 twice	cc
17	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	15 once	conj
18	»	»	PUNCT	_	1 Count	punct
19	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	at	at	ADP	_	21 most	case
21	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	22 two	nmod
22	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 means	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	count	infinitive					time	once property	vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
2	hit	present	★	the rabbit		★'s story			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent rabbit=Theme in story=Destination
3	mean	present		two		most			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent two=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

More than ten times, with a cuff each time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	More	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	3 ten	advmod
2	than	than	ADP	_	1 More	fixed
3	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 times	nummod
4	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 cuff	punct
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 cuff	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 cuff	det
8	cuff	cuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 times	nmod
9	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	10 time	det
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 times	nmod

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

Option 2

Maybe five or six times in total

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Maybe	maybe	ADV	_	2 five	advmod
2	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 times	nummod
3	or	or	CCONJ	_	4 six	cc
4	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 five	conj
5	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 total	case
7	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 times	nmod

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

Option 3

Four or five

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	or	or	CCONJ	_	3 five	cc
3	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Four	conj

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

At most three

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	2 most	case
2	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 three	nmod
3	three	three	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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