Test 16 · ★★ · Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 3…
★★★ Pau Amma's shell is soft one month in twelve. If he lived ten years, for how many months was he soft in all?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: ★ · What happens: be, live · To what, where: twelve, all
This is test 16 · ★★ of lesson 92 «Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 3: the Moon pulls the sea, and how tides really work» 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: ★★★ Pau Amma's shell is soft one month in twelve.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 soft | nsubj |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 4 | Pau | Pau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 shell | nmod:poss |
| 5 | Amma | Amma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Pau | flat |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Pau | case |
| 7 | shell | shell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ★ | appos |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 soft | cop |
| 9 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 month | nummod |
| 11 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 soft | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 twelve | case |
| 13 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 soft | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 soft | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | ★ | twelve | month | soft property | 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.
Sentence 2: If he lived ten years, for how many months was he soft in all?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 lived | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 lived | nsubj |
| 3 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 soft | advcl |
| 4 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 years | nummod |
| 5 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 lived | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 lived | punct |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 months | case |
| 8 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 many | advmod |
| 9 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 months | amod |
| 10 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 soft | obl |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 soft | cop |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 soft | nsubj |
| 13 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 all | case |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 soft | obl |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 13 soft | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live a condition, not said to happen | past | ★ | year | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | ★ | all | month | soft property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Ten
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
5
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
2
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
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.
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