Test 7 · ★ · Crimson Fairy Book, The Seven Simeons, part 8: Simon steal…
Dead serious, how many brothers got kept back as hostages, fam?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: keep back · To what, where: many brothers
This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 668 «Crimson Fairy Book, The Seven Simeons, part 8: Simon steals the princess and sails off under the sea» 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 | Dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 serious | amod |
| 2 | serious | serious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 kept | punct |
| 4 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 many | advmod |
| 5 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 brothers | amod |
| 6 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 kept | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 kept | aux:pass |
| 8 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 serious | conj |
| 9 | back | back | ADV | _ | 8 kept | advmod |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 hostages | case |
| 11 | hostages | hostage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 kept | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 fam | punct |
| 13 | fam | fam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hostages | conj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 serious | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep back | past · passive | many brothers | as hostages and fam | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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
Four
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Three
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
1
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
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.
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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