Test 15 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 2: The Further Ad…
★★★ The man says five shillings is «three-and-sixpence more than the animal's worth». So what does he say the horse is worth?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★, five shillings, horse · What happens: say, be · To what, where: sixpence · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 15 · ★★★ of lesson 62 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 2: The Further Adventures of Toad (into the canal, the stolen horse and «a shilling a leg»)» 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 man says five shillings is «three-and-sixpence more than the animal's worth».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 says | nsubj |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | ADP | _ | 5 man | case |
| 4 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 ★ | nmod |
| 6 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 shillings | nummod |
| 8 | shillings | shilling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 sixpence | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 sixpence | cop |
| 10 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 15 sixpence | punct |
| 11 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 sixpence | nsubj |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 sixpence | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 sixpence | cc |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 and | punct |
| 15 | sixpence | sixpence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 says | ccomp |
| 16 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 sixpence | amod |
| 17 | than | than | ADP | _ | 21 worth | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 animal | det |
| 19 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 worth | nmod:poss |
| 20 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 19 animal | case |
| 21 | worth | worth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 more | obl |
| 22 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 15 sixpence | punct |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | ★ ★ the man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | five shillings | sixpence | 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: So what does he say the horse is worth?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 say | advmod |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 say | obj |
| 3 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 say | aux |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 say | nsubj |
| 5 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 horse | det |
| 7 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 worth | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 worth | cop |
| 9 | worth | worth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 say | ccomp |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 say | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present · do-support | ★ | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is | present | the horse | worth property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Two shillings and sixpence
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 shillings | nummod |
| 2 | shillings | shilling | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 sixpence | cc |
| 4 | sixpence | sixpence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 shillings | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
One shilling
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 shilling | nummod |
| 2 | shilling | shilling | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
One shilling and sixpence in cash and a bag of oats
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 shilling | nummod |
| 2 | shilling | shilling | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 sixpence | cc |
| 4 | sixpence | sixpence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 shilling | conj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 cash | case |
| 6 | cash | cash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sixpence | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 bag | cc |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 bag | det |
| 9 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 shilling | conj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 oats | case |
| 11 | oats | oat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 bag | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
One shilling and sixpence
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 shilling | nummod |
| 2 | shilling | shilling | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 sixpence | cc |
| 4 | sixpence | sixpence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 shilling | 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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