Test 3 · ★ · Grimm, King Grisly-beard, part 59: a proud princess is mar…

bruh how many farthings did he lose at nine-pins?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: many farthings · What happens: lose · To what, where: nine pins

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 783 «Grimm, King Grisly-beard, part 59: a proud princess is married off to a beggar fiddler» 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	bruh	bruh	INTJ	_	7 lose	discourse
2	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	3 many	advmod
3	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 farthings	amod
4	farthings	farthing	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 lose	nsubj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 lose	aux
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 lose	nsubj
7	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	at	at	ADP	_	11 pins	case
9	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 pins	nummod
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 nine	punct
11	pins	pin	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 lose	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 lose	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past · do-support	many farthings			nine pins			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: agent=Agent at pin=Eventuality

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

a couple, which is like nothing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 couple	det
2	couple	couple	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 nothing	punct
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 nothing	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 nothing	cop
6	like	like	ADP	_	7 nothing	case
7	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 couple	appos

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	a couple					like nothing	tree rules

Option 2

a few, so what

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 few	det
2	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 what	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 what	punct
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 what	advmod
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root

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

Option 3

a dozen, which is quite a lot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 dozen	det
2	dozen	dozen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 lot	punct
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 lot	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 lot	cop
6	quite	quite	DET	PronType=Ind	8 lot	det:predet
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 lot	det
8	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dozen	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		quite lot					tree rules

Option 4

just two, not much

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	just	just	ADV	_	2 two	advmod
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 much	punct
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 much	advmod
5	much	much	ADV	_	2 two	advmod

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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