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Test 18 · ★ · Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 1: a wis…

★★★ The Animal said its brothers each eat «twice as much as that between meals». If the dinner was enough for ALL the animals in the world, the Animal's thirty thousand brothers eat what, between meals?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: ★, dinner, thousand brothers · What happens: say, eat, be · To what, where: brothers, much · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 18 · ★ of lesson 96 «Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 1: a wise king, a hungry Animal and a butterfly's boast» 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: ★★★ The Animal said its brothers each eat «twice as much as that between meals».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
2	★	★	X	Foreign=Yes	1 ★	dep
3	★	★	ADP	_	5 Animal	case
4	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Animal	det
5	Animal	Animal	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 ★	nmod
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 brothers	nmod:poss
8	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 said	obj
9	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	10 eat	advmod
10	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 said	ccomp
11	«	«	PUNCT	_	14 much	punct
12	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	14 much	advmod
13	as	as	ADV	_	14 much	advmod
14	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 eat	obj
15	as	as	ADP	_	16 that	case
16	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 much	obl
17	between	between	ADP	_	18 meals	case
18	meals	meal	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 much	obl
19	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 much	punct
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	★ ★ the Animal	Animal's brothers					tree rules
2	eat	present		much					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Patient

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 the dinner was enough for ALL the animals in the world, the Animal's thirty thousand brothers eat what, between meals?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 enough	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dinner	det
3	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 enough	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 enough	cop
5	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 eat	advcl
6	for	for	ADP	_	9 animals	case
7	ALL	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 animals	det:predet
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 animals	det
9	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 enough	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 world	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 world	det
12	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 animals	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 enough	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Animal	det
15	Animal	Animal	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 brothers	nmod:poss
16	's	's	PART	_	15 Animal	case
17	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 thousand	compound
18	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 brothers	nummod
19	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 eat	nsubj
20	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 eat	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 meals	punct
23	between	between	ADP	_	24 meals	case
24	meals	meal	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 what	nsubj
25	?	?	PUNCT	_	20 eat	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a condition, not said to happen	past	the dinner					for all animals in the world; enough property	tree rules
2	eat	present	the Animal's thousand brothers						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Twice the whole world's dinner, each

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 dinner	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 world	det
3	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 world	amod
4	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dinner	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 world	case
6	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 dinner	punct
8	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	6 dinner	nmod:unmarked

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

Option 2

Half of the world's dinner, each

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	6 dinner	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 world	det
4	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dinner	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 world	case
6	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Half	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Half	punct
8	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Half	conj

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

Option 3

Two dinners for each of them, all together

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 dinners	nummod
2	dinners	dinner	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 each	case
4	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	2 dinners	nmod
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 each	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 dinners	punct
8	all	all	ADV	_	9 together	advmod
9	together	together	ADV	_	2 dinners	advmod

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

Option 4

Twice the dinner, each, at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 dinner	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dinner	det
3	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 each	punct
5	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	3 dinner	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 each	punct
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 once	case
8	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 dinner	obl

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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