Test 9 · ★ · Grimm, The Straw, the Coal, and the Bean: three runaways a…

did the old woman really zap sixty straws at once?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, zap · To what, where: old woman, sixty straws

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 730 «Grimm, The Straw, the Coal, and the Bean: three runaways almost die, and a bean ends up with a black seam» 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	4 woman	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 woman	amod
4	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 did	obj
5	really	really	ADV	_	6 zap	advmod
6	zap	zap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 did	advcl
7	sixty	sixty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 straws	nummod
8	straws	straw	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 zap	obj
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 once	case
10	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 zap	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the old woman					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Eventuality
2	zap	present		sixty straws					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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

No, only six straws, not sixty at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 straws	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 six	advmod
4	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 straws	nummod
5	straws	straw	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 sixty	punct
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 sixty	advmod
8	sixty	sixty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 straws	appos
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 all	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 sixty	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, sixty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 sixty	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 sixty	punct
3	sixty	sixty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 3

No, thirty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 thirty	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 4

Nah

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	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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