Test 15 · ★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 2: The Pool of Tears…
★★★ The Latin Grammar line is "A mouse—of a mouse—to a mouse—a mouse—O mouse!" How many times does the word "mouse" appear in it?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★, many times, mouse · What happens: be, do, appear · To what, where: mouse, word
This is test 15 · ★ of lesson 4 «Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 2: The Pool of Tears and the Mouse» 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 Latin Grammar line is "A mouse—of a mouse—to a mouse—a mouse—O mouse!"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 mouse | nsubj |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | ADP | _ | 7 line | case |
| 4 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 line | det |
| 5 | Latin | Latin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 line | amod |
| 6 | Grammar | Grammar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 line | compound |
| 7 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 ★ | nmod |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 mouse | cop |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 mouse | punct |
| 10 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 mouse | det |
| 11 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 mouse | punct |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 mouse | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 mouse | det |
| 15 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 mouse | nmod |
| 16 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 mouse | punct |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 mouse | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 mouse | det |
| 19 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 mouse | parataxis |
| 20 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 mouse | punct |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 mouse | det |
| 22 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 mouse | nmod |
| 23 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 mouse | punct |
| 24 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 25 mouse | discourse |
| 25 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 mouse | parataxis |
| 26 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 25 mouse | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 mouse | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | ★ ★ the Latin Grammar line | a mouse | of a mouse | 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.
Sentence 2: How many times does the word "mouse" appear in it?
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 times | amod |
| 3 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 does | nsubj |
| 4 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 word | det |
| 6 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 does | obj |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 mouse | punct |
| 8 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 appear | nsubj |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 mouse | punct |
| 10 | appear | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 word | acl:relcl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 it | case |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 appear | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 does | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | many times | the word | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | appear | present | mouse | the word not said here | word | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location word=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Two
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Six
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
One
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Five
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Five | five | 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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