Test 16 · ★ · Just So Stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, part 1:…
★★★ «If she said what you said I said she said, it's just the same as if I said what she said she said.» How many times does the word «said» appear in that sentence?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: ★, you, I, it, many times · What happens: say, be, do, appear · To what, where: word, sentence · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 16 · ★ of lesson 82 «Just So Stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, part 1: Painted Jaguar and the muddled advice» 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: ★★★ «If she said what you said I said she said, it's just the same as if I said what she said she said.»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 5 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 said | mark |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 said | obj |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 what | acl:relcl |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 said | nsubj |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | ccomp |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 said | nsubj |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | ccomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 same | punct |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 same | nsubj |
| 17 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 same | cop |
| 18 | just | just | ADV | _ | 20 same | advmod |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 same | det |
| 20 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 said | parataxis |
| 21 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 24 said | mark |
| 22 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 24 said | mark |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 said | nsubj |
| 24 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 same | advcl |
| 25 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 24 said | obj |
| 26 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 said | nsubj |
| 27 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 what | acl:relcl |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 said | nsubj |
| 29 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 said | ccomp |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 31 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | ★ | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | you | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | I | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | ★ | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is in a quote | present | it | same property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | I | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic | |||||
| 7 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | ★ | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 8 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | ★ | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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 times does the word «said» appear in that sentence?
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 times | amod |
| 3 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 does | nsubj |
| 4 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 word | det |
| 6 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 does | obj |
| 7 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 word | parataxis |
| 9 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 10 | appear | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 does | conj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 sentence | case |
| 12 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 sentence | det |
| 13 | sentence | sentence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 appear | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 does | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | many times | the word | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | appear | present | many times not said here | that sentence | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sentence=Location |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Seven
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Fourteen
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fourteen | fourteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Seventeen
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Seventeen | seventeen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Four
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Four | four | 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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