Test 10 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Wishing-Cloak, part 55: a sister…

how many birds were on the cloak, like nine?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: many birds · What happens: be · To what, where: cloak

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 779 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Wishing-Cloak, part 55: a sister frees her ravens, Mrs Fox tests her suitors, and a huntsman gets a magic cloak» 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	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 many	advmod
2	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 birds	amod
3	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 cloak	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 cloak	cop
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 cloak	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cloak	det
7	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 nine	punct
9	like	like	ADP	_	10 nine	case
10	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 cloak	appos
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 cloak	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	many birds			the cloak			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

nah, ten birds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

yep, two

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, nine birds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 birds	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 birds	nummod
4	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

nah, six

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	3 six	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	six	six	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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