Test 7 · ★ · PG 2435, How To Find Out A True Friend, part 61: the princ…

did the prince actually have a lot of mates on the road?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: do, have · To what, where: prince, lot

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 721 «PG 2435, How To Find Out A True Friend, part 61: the prince tests two travelling companions with apples and finds a true friend» 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	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 prince	det
3	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 did	obj
4	actually	actually	ADV	_	5 have	advmod
5	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 did	advcl
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 lot	det
7	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 have	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 mates	case
9	mates	mate	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 lot	nmod
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 road	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 road	det
12	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 mates	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the prince					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Eventuality
2	have	present		a lot of mates on the road				actually property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

nah, he had zero until the third dude

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	zero	zero	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 had	obj
6	until	until	ADP	_	9 dude	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 dude	det
8	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 dude	amod
9	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	he	zero			until the third dude		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent zero=Patient

Option 2

yeah, loads

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 loads	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

nah, zero friends

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 friends	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	zero	zero	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 friends	nummod
4	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

nah, he had none until the old man

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	4 had	obj
6	until	until	ADP	_	9 man	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 man	det
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 man	amod
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	he	none			until the old man		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent none=Patient

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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