Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Mermaid, part 87: the s…

how many sisters were there, like for real?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: many sisters · What happens: be

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 876 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Mermaid, part 87: the sea-princesses dream of the world above the waves» 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	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 many	advmod
2	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sisters	amod
3	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 there	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 there	cop
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 real	punct
7	like	like	ADP	_	9 real	case
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 real	case
9	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 there	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 there	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	many sisters					there property	tree rules
2	be		many sisters not said here						tree rules

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

eight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

six

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

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.

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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