Test 16 · ★ · Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 2:…

★★★ The ladies sit on the Stranger-man «in a long line of six». With Teshumai pulling his hair, how many women are on or at him?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ladies · What happens: sit, pull · To what, where: ★, long line, hair

This is test 16 · ★ of lesson 85 «Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 2: the picture goes wrong and the whole Tribe comes» 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 ladies sit on the Stranger-man «in a long line of six».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 sit	obl
2	★	★	X	Foreign=Yes	1 ★	dep
3	★	★	SCONJ	_	6 sit	mark
4	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ladies	det
5	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 sit	nsubj
6	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	on	on	ADP	_	11 man	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 man	det
9	Stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 man	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 Stranger	punct
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sit	obl
12	«	«	PUNCT	_	16 line	punct
13	in	in	ADP	_	16 line	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 line	det
15	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 line	amod
16	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sit	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 six	case
18	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 line	nmod
19	»	»	PUNCT	_	16 line	punct
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 sit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	present	the ladies	★		a long line of six		on the Stranger man	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on man=Location

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: With Teshumai pulling his hair, how many women are on or at him?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	With	with	ADP	_	2 Teshumai	case
2	Teshumai	Teshumai	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 pulling	obl
3	pulling	pull	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 hair	nmod:poss
5	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pulling	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 on	punct
7	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	8 many	advmod
8	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 women	amod
9	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 on	nsubj
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 on	cop
11	on	on	ADP	_	14 him	case
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 at	cc
13	at	at	ADP	_	11 on	conj
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 pulling	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 pulling	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull	gerund		Teshumai's hair				with Teshumai; on Teshumai	vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ✓ 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

Nine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Seven women in total, including the one who is pulling his hair

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 women	nummod
2	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 total	case
4	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 women	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 one	punct
6	including	including	ADP	_	8 one	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 one	det
8	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 women	appos
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 pulling	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 pulling	aux
11	pulling	pull	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 one	acl
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 hair	nmod:poss
13	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 pulling	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull	present · progressive	the one	his hair					vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Theme

Option 4

Seven ladies, not counting the drummers outside

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 ladies	nummod
2	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 counting	punct
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 counting	advmod
5	counting	count	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 ladies	acl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 drummers	det
7	drummers	drummer	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 counting	obj
8	outside	outside	ADV	_	5 counting	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not count	gerund	Seven ladies not said here	the drummers				outside property	vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drummer=Theme

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