Test 7 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Nightingale, part 123: the emp…

How many servants held her silk strings, innit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: many servants · What happens: hold, innit · To what, where: silk strings

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 912 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Nightingale, part 123: the emperor hears of a bird, and a jewelled fake is sent» 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 servants	amod
3	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 held	nsubj
4	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 strings	nmod:poss
6	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 strings	compound
7	strings	string	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 held	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 innit	punct
9	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 held	advcl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 held	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	past	many servants	her silk strings					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent string=Theme
2	innit	infinitive	many servants 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 · ← Mova's choice

"Two"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Two	punct
2	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Two	punct

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Twelve

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

"One"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 One	punct
2	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 One	punct

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

Option 4

"Fourteen"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Fourteen	punct
2	Fourteen	fourteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Fourteen	punct

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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