Test 14 · ★ · Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 5: The Elephant's Child…
★★★ He took a hundred pounds of bananas and a hundred pounds of sugar-cane. How many pounds is that in all, not counting the melons?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★ ★ · What happens: take, not count · To what, where: hundred pounds, melons
This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 79 «Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 5: The Elephant's Child, part 1 (What does the Crocodile have for dinner?)» 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
Sentence 1: ★★★ He took a hundred pounds of bananas and a hundred pounds of sugar-cane.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ★ | compound |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | PUNCT | _ | 1 ★ | punct |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 took | nsubj |
| 4 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 took | nsubj |
| 5 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 hundred | det |
| 7 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 pounds | nummod |
| 8 | pounds | pound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 took | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 bananas | case |
| 10 | bananas | banana | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 pounds | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 pounds | cc |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 hundred | det |
| 13 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 pounds | nummod |
| 14 | pounds | pound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 bananas | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 cane | case |
| 16 | sugar | sugar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 cane | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 sugar | punct |
| 18 | cane | cane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 pounds | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 took | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | ★ ★ | hundred pounds of bananas and hundred pounds of sugar cane | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pound=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.
Sentence 2: How many pounds is that in all, not counting the melons?
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 pounds | amod |
| 3 | pounds | pound | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 all | cop |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 all | mark |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 all | case |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 pounds | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 counting | punct |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 counting | advmod |
| 10 | counting | count | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 all | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 melons | det |
| 12 | melons | melon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 counting | obj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 pounds | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not count | gerund | the melons | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent melon=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Fifty
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fifty | fifty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Two hundred
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 hundred | compound |
| 2 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Ninety
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ninety | ninety | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Four hundred
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 hundred | compound |
| 2 | hundred | hundred | 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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