Test 16 · ★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter VII, part 3: The Piper at…
★★★ The reeds' song has three verses. How many of them end with the word «forget»?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★, reeds, many · What happens: have, sing, end, forget · To what, where: three verses, word · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 16 · ★ of lesson 51 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VII, part 3: The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (the gift of forgetfulness)» 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 reeds' song has three verses.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 has | nsubj |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | ADP | _ | 7 song | case |
| 4 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 reeds | det |
| 5 | reeds | reed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 song | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 5 reeds | case |
| 7 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 ★ | nmod |
| 8 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 verses | nummod |
| 10 | verses | verse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 has | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 has | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | ★ ★ the reeds's song | three verses | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent verse=Patient | ||||
| 2 | sing | the reeds | nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
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 of them end with the word «forget»?
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 | 5 end | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 them | case |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 many | nmod |
| 5 | end | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 word | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 word | det |
| 8 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 end | obj |
| 9 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 10 forget | punct |
| 10 | forget | forget | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 word | parataxis |
| 11 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 10 forget | punct |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 end | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | end | present | many of reeds | the word | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality word=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | forget in a quote | infinitive | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Just two
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 2 two | advmod |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
All three, though the last verse ends differently
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 three | det |
| 2 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 ends | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 ends | punct |
| 4 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 8 ends | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 verse | det |
| 6 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 verse | amod |
| 7 | verse | verse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ends | nsubj |
| 8 | ends | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | differently | differently | ADV | _ | 8 ends | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | end | present | all three | differently property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
All three
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 three | det |
| 2 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Only one
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 2 one | advmod |
| 2 | one | one | 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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