Test 6 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Emperor's New Suit: a child sa…

bro, how many candles did they burn overnight?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bro · What happens: burn

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 824 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Emperor's New Suit: a child says the truth» 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	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 burn	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 candles	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 many	advmod
4	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 candles	amod
5	candles	candle	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 bro	conj
6	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 burn	aux
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 burn	nsubj
8	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	overnight	overnight	ADV	_	8 burn	advmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 burn	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	past · do-support	bro and many candles					overnight property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Far more than sixteen, burning all night long for the cloth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 more	advmod
2	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 burning	advmod
3	than	than	ADP	_	4 sixteen	case
4	sixteen	sixteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 more	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 burning	punct
6	burning	burn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 night	det
8	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 burning	obj
9	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 burning	advmod
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 cloth	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 cloth	det
12	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 burning	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	gerund					night	for the cloth; long property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Nearly twenty-four

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nearly	nearly	ADV	_	4 four	advmod
2	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 four	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 twenty	punct
4	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 3

More than sixteen, by the swindlers' own count

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	More	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	3 sixteen	advmod
2	than	than	ADP	_	1 More	fixed
3	sixteen	sixteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 sixteen	punct
5	by	by	ADP	_	10 count	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 swindlers	det
7	swindlers	swindler	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 count	nmod:poss
8	'	's	PART	_	7 swindlers	case
9	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 count	amod
10	count	count	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sixteen	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

More than sixteen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	More	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	3 sixteen	advmod
2	than	than	ADP	_	1 More	fixed
3	sixteen	sixteen	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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