Test 17 · ★★ · Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 2: the B…
★★★ Count the twelve tales: in how many is a little girl an important character?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★, many · What happens: count, be · To what, where: twelve tales
This is test 17 · ★★ of lesson 97 «Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 2: the Butterfly stamps, Balkis is wise, and the book ends» 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 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Count | nsubj |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | PUNCT | _ | 1 ★ | punct |
| 4 | Count | count | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 tales | det |
| 6 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 tales | nummod |
| 7 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 Count | obj |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 girl | punct |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 girl | case |
| 10 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 many | advmod |
| 11 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 girl | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 girl | cop |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 girl | det |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 girl | amod |
| 15 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Count | parataxis |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 character | det |
| 17 | important | important | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 character | amod |
| 18 | character | character | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 girl | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 Count | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | count | infinitive | ★ | the twelve tales | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tale=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present | many | in a little girl; a important character obl:unmarked | 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
Three: the two Taffy stories and the Crab story and the Armadillo story
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 stories | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 stories | det |
| 4 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 stories | nummod |
| 5 | Taffy | Taffy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 stories | compound |
| 6 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Three | appos |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 story | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 story | det |
| 9 | Crab | Crab | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 story | compound |
| 10 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stories | conj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 story | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 story | det |
| 13 | Armadillo | Armadillo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 story | compound |
| 14 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 story | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Four: all the Taffy stories and one more
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 stories | nummod |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 stories | punct |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 stories | det:predet |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 stories | det |
| 5 | Taffy | Taffy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 stories | compound |
| 6 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 more | cc |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 more | nummod |
| 9 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 stories | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Four: two Taffy stories, the Crab story, and a tale about the Elephant's Child
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 stories | punct |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 stories | nummod |
| 4 | Taffy | Taffy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 stories | compound |
| 5 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Four | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 story | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 story | det |
| 8 | Crab | Crab | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 story | compound |
| 9 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stories | appos |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 tale | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 tale | cc |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 tale | det |
| 13 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 story | appos |
| 14 | about | about | ADP | _ | 18 Child | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Elephant | det |
| 16 | Elephant | Elephant | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Child | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 Elephant | case |
| 18 | Child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tale | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Three: the two Taffy stories and the Crab story
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 stories | nummod |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 stories | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 stories | det |
| 4 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 stories | nummod |
| 5 | Taffy | Taffy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 stories | compound |
| 6 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 story | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 story | det |
| 9 | Crab | Crab | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 story | compound |
| 10 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stories | conj |
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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