Test 16 · ★ · Just So Stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, part 2:…

★★★ The Hedgehog had his back-plates... no, wait. Who had back-plates unlaced, and how many times does the story say they were unlaced?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★, many times · What happens: have, wait, unlace, do, say · To what, where: back plates, plates, story · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 16 · ★ of lesson 83 «Just So Stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, part 2: swimming lessons, curling lessons, and a new name» 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: ★★★ The Hedgehog had his back-plates... no, wait.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 had	nsubj
2	★	★	X	Foreign=Yes	1 ★	dep
3	★	★	ADP	_	5 Hedgehog	case
4	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Hedgehog	det
5	Hedgehog	Hedgehog	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 ★	nmod
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 plates	nmod:poss
8	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 plates	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 back	punct
10	plates	plate	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 had	obj
11	...	...	PUNCT	_	14 wait	punct
12	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	14 wait	discourse
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 no	punct
14	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 had	conj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 had	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	★ ★ the Hedgehog	★'s back plates					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plate=Patient
2	wait	infinitive	★ ★ the Hedgehog not said here						vn exist-47.1 «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.

Sentence 2: Who had back-plates unlaced, and how many times does the story say they were unlaced?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	back	back	ADV	_	2 had	advmod
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 back	punct
5	plates	plate	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obj
6	unlaced	unlace	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 plates	acl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 does	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 does	cc
9	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	10 many	advmod
10	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 times	amod
11	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 does	nsubj
12	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 say	advcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 story	det
14	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 does	obj
15	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 had	parataxis
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 unlaced	nsubj
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 unlaced	aux:pass
18	unlaced	unlace	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 say	ccomp
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	have	past		plates	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plate=Patient
2	unlace	participle		plates not said here	vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	do	present	many times	the story	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Eventuality
4	say speech: assert	present			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	unlace	past · passive		plates = plate	vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Hedgehog, twice: «a little», then «two more»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hedgehog	Hedgehog	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Hedgehog	punct
3	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	1 Hedgehog	advmod
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 little	punct
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 little	punct
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 little	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Hedgehog	parataxis
8	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 little	punct
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 more	punct
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 more	advmod
11	«	«	PUNCT	_	13 more	punct
12	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 more	nummod
13	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 Hedgehog	appos
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 more	punct

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Tortoise, twice: «a little», then «two holes more»

The tree, 8 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 twice	punct
3	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	1 Tortoise	advmod
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 little	punct
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 little	punct
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 little	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Tortoise	appos
8	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 little	punct
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 more	punct
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 more	advmod
11	«	«	PUNCT	_	14 more	punct
12	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 holes	nummod
13	holes	hole	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 more	nsubj
14	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 Tortoise	parataxis
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 more	punct

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

Option 3

Tortoise, three times, each time a little more

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 times	punct
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 times	nummod
4	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Tortoise	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 time	punct
6	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	7 time	det
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tortoise	conj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 little	det
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 more	obl:unmarked
10	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 time	advmod

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

Option 4

Tortoise, twice, first a little and then two holes more, but Hedgehog also did it once for himself

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Tortoise	punct
3	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	1 Tortoise	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 more	punct
5	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	12 more	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 little	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 more	obl:unmarked
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 more	cc
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 more	advmod
10	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 holes	nummod
11	holes	hole	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 more	nsubj
12	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 Tortoise	parataxis
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 did	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 did	cc
15	Hedgehog	Hedgehog	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 did	nsubj
16	also	also	ADV	_	17 did	advmod
17	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 more	conj
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 did	obj
19	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	17 did	advmod
20	for	for	ADP	_	21 himself	case
21	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	17 did	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Hedgehog	Tortoise				for Hedgehog; once property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

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