Test 16 · ★★ · Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 3: t…
★★★ Counting: «two leather boots and his little stone axe (that makes three) ... a piece of wood and a hatchet (that is five)». If he threw only the boots and the axe, how many things were left in the row?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★, little stone axe, that, axe · What happens: count, make, be, throw, leave · To what, where: two leather boots, three, five, boots, many things, row · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 16 · ★★ of lesson 95 «Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 3: the third word, the Man, the Dog, and how cats really came to live with us» 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: ★★★ Counting: «two leather boots and his little stone axe (that makes three) ... a piece of wood and a hatchet (that is five)».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | SCONJ | _ | 4 Counting | mark |
| 4 | Counting | count | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 ★ | acl |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 boots | punct |
| 6 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 9 boots | punct |
| 7 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 boots | nummod |
| 8 | leather | leather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 boots | compound |
| 9 | boots | boot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 Counting | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 axe | cc |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 axe | nmod:poss |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 axe | amod |
| 13 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 axe | compound |
| 14 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 boots | conj |
| 15 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 17 makes | punct |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 makes | nsubj |
| 17 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 axe | acl:relcl |
| 18 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 makes | obj |
| 19 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 17 makes | punct |
| 20 | ... | ... | PUNCT | _ | 22 piece | punct |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 piece | det |
| 22 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 boots | conj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 wood | case |
| 24 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 piece | nmod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 hatchet | cc |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 hatchet | det |
| 27 | hatchet | hatchet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 boots | conj |
| 28 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 31 five | punct |
| 29 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 31 five | nsubj |
| 30 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 five | cop |
| 31 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 hatchet | parataxis |
| 32 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 31 five | punct |
| 33 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 27 hatchet | punct |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 ★ | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | count | gerund | ★ not said here | two leather boots and ★'s little stone axe and a piece of wood and a hatchet | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boot=Theme | ||||
| 2 | make in a quote | present | ★'s little stone axe | three | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset three=Product | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | that | five | 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 threw only the boots and the axe, how many things were left in the row?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 threw | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 threw | nsubj |
| 3 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 boots | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 boots | det |
| 6 | boots | boot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 threw | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 axe | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 axe | det |
| 9 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 boots | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 left | punct |
| 11 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 many | advmod |
| 12 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 things | amod |
| 13 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 left | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 left | aux:pass |
| 15 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 axe | acl:relcl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 row | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 row | det |
| 18 | row | row | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 left | obl |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 threw | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | past | ★ | the boots and the axe | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boot=Theme | ||||
| 2 | leave | past · passive | the axe not said here | many things | the row | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in row=Location |
The options
Option 1
None
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | None | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Two
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Five
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
Three
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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