Test 2 · Apostrophes: missing letters and belonging
★★★ "The girl's dogs' bowls." How many girls and how many dogs?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗
This is test 2 of lesson 34 «Apostrophes: missing letters and belonging» 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
Sentence 1: ★★★ "The girl's dogs' bowls."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ★ | compound |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ★ | compound |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 bowls | punct |
| 5 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 girl | det |
| 6 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dogs | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 girl | case |
| 8 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 bowls | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 8 dogs | case |
| 10 | bowls | bowl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 ★ | conj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ★ | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 ★ | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Sentence 2: How many girls and how many dogs?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 many | advmod |
| 2 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 girls | amod |
| 3 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 dogs | cc |
| 5 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 many | advmod |
| 6 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 dogs | amod |
| 7 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 girls | conj |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 girls | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Many girls and one dog
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 girls | amod |
| 2 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 dog | cc |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 dog | nummod |
| 5 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 girls | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
One girl and one dog
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 girl | nummod |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 dog | cc |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 dog | nummod |
| 5 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 girl | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Many girls and many dogs
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 girls | amod |
| 2 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 dogs | cc |
| 4 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 dogs | amod |
| 5 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 girls | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
One girl and more than one dog
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 girl | nummod |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 dog | cc |
| 4 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 6 one | advmod |
| 5 | than | than | ADP | _ | 4 more | fixed |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 dog | nummod |
| 7 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 girl | 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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