Test 14 · ★★ · Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 5: The Elephant's Child…
★★★ In the poem the small girl keeps one million Hows, two million Wheres and seven million Whys. How many is that?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: ★ ★ ★, that · What happens: keep, be · To what, where: million Hows
This is test 14 · ★★ of lesson 80 «Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 5: The Elephant's Child, part 2 (the tug-of-war and the trunk)» 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: ★★★ In the poem the small girl keeps one million Hows, two million Wheres and seven million Whys.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ★ | compound |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ★ | compound |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 keeps | nsubj |
| 4 | In | in | ADP | _ | 6 poem | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 poem | det |
| 6 | poem | poem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ★ | nmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 girl | det |
| 8 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 girl | amod |
| 9 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 poem | appos |
| 10 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 million | compound |
| 12 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 Hows | nummod |
| 13 | Hows | how | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 keeps | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Wheres | punct |
| 15 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 million | compound |
| 16 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 Wheres | nummod |
| 17 | Wheres | where | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 Hows | conj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 Whys | cc |
| 19 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 million | compound |
| 20 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 Whys | nummod |
| 21 | Whys | why | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 Hows | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 keeps | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | present | ★ ★ ★ in the poem | million Hows and million Wheres and million Whys | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent how=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 is that?
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 | root | root |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 many | cop |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 many | nsubj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 many | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | that | many property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Ten million
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 million | compound |
| 2 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Nine million
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 million | compound |
| 2 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Seventeen million altogether, counting every single one
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Seventeen | seventeen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 million | compound |
| 2 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 altogether | nummod |
| 3 | altogether | altogether | ADV | _ | 5 counting | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 altogether | punct |
| 5 | counting | count | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 one | det |
| 7 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 one | amod |
| 8 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 counting | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | count | gerund | every single one | altogether property | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme |
Option 4
Eleven million
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Eleven | eleven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 million | compound |
| 2 | million | million | 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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