Test 9 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Clever Elsie: Elsie weeps over a pick…

wait, how many were crying in the cellar when Hans showed up?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, many, Hans · What happens: wait, cry, show up · To what, where: cellar

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 757 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Clever Elsie: Elsie weeps over a pick-axe and wins Hans» 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 crying	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 many	advmod
4	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 crying	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 crying	aux
6	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 wait	advcl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 cellar	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 cellar	det
9	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 crying	obl
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 showed	advmod
11	Hans	Han	PROPN	Number=Plur	12 showed	nsubj
12	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 crying	conj
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 showed	compound:prt
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	cry speech: express	past · progressive	many	the cellar	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cellar=Location
3	show up	past	Hans		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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

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 2

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.

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

five people plus the maid and the boy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 people	nummod
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	plus	plus	CCONJ	_	5 maid	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 maid	det
5	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 people	conj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 boy	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 boy	det
8	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 people	conj

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

five

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	five	five	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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