Test 6 · ★ · Word classes: the jobs words do
★★★ How many nouns are in «Gran gave Tom a cake and a card on Friday»?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★ · What happens: be · To what, where: Tom
This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 27 «Word classes: the jobs words do» of the English 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 | 11 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | ADP | _ | 6 nouns | case |
| 4 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 many | advmod |
| 5 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 nouns | amod |
| 6 | nouns | noun | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 ★ | nmod |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 gave | cop |
| 8 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 11 gave | mark |
| 9 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 11 gave | punct |
| 10 | Gran | Gran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 gave | nsubj |
| 11 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 gave | iobj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 cake | det |
| 14 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gave | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 card | cc |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 card | det |
| 17 | card | card | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 cake | conj |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 Friday | case |
| 19 | Friday | Friday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 gave | obl |
| 20 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 19 Friday | punct |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 gave | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | ★ | Tom | friday | give 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.
The options
Option 1
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 2
Six
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
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.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
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.
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/27-word-classes-the-jobs-words-do/t6/