Test 10 · ★ · Andersen, Something, part 199: the critic reaches heaven's…

the funeral had how many speeches, tell me

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: funeral · What happens: have, tell · To what, where: many speeches, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 988 «Andersen, Something, part 199: the critic reaches heaven's gate, and old Margaret's burning bed saves the skaters» 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 funeral	det
2	funeral	funeral	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 many	advmod
5	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 speeches	amod
6	speeches	speech	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 had	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 tell	punct
8	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 had	conj
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 tell	iobj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the funeral	many speeches					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent speech=Patient
2	tell speech: assert	infinitive	the funeral not said here		me				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient

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

seven speeches, all of them praising him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 speeches	nummod
2	speeches	speech	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 praising	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 speeches	punct
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 praising	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 all	nmod
7	praising	praise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 praising	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	praise	gerund	seven speeches	him = he					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

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.

Option 4

four

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

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