Test 9 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Water of Life: the youngest princ…

Wait, how many embassies turned up at the court?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, many embassies · What happens: wait, turn up · To what, where: court

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 775 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Water of Life: the youngest prince is cheated, then wins his bride» 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 turned	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 many	advmod
4	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 embassies	amod
5	embassies	embassy	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 turned	nsubj
6	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Wait	advcl
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 turned	compound:prt
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 court	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 court	det
10	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 turned	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	turn up	past	many embassies			the court			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at court=Location

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

Three embassies, all with gifts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 embassies	nummod
2	embassies	embassy	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 all	punct
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 embassies	conj
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 gifts	case
6	gifts	gift	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 all	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

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

Three grand embassies from the three kings

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 embassies	nummod
2	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 embassies	amod
3	embassies	embassy	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	7 kings	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 kings	det
6	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 kings	nummod
7	kings	king	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 embassies	nmod

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

Option 4

Twelve

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Twelve	twelve	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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