Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Mail-Coach Passengers, part 97: a wi…

how many blokes were squashed in that coach, fam?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: squash · To what, where: many blokes, coach

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 886 «Andersen's Tales, The Mail-Coach Passengers, part 97: a wise man hunts the loveliest rose, then twelve months arrive at the town gate on New Year's Eve» 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 blokes	amod
3	blokes	bloke	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 squashed	nsubj:pass
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 squashed	aux:pass
5	squashed	squash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 coach	case
7	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 coach	det
8	coach	coach	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 squashed	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 fam	punct
10	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 coach	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 squashed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	squash	past · passive		many blokes		that coach and fam			vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme in coach=Trajectory

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

twelve squashed passengers in the back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 passengers	nummod
2	squashed	squash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 passengers	amod
3	passengers	passenger	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 back	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 back	det
6	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 passengers	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	squash	participle							vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

twelve passengers and the driver

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 passengers	nummod
2	passengers	passenger	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 driver	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 driver	det
5	driver	driver	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 passengers	conj

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

twelve passengers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 passengers	nummod
2	passengers	passenger	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

fourteen people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fourteen	fourteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 people	nummod
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	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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