Test 11 · Handwriting: holding the pencil and joining up
★★★ How many letters in «happy» hang below the line?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: ★ · What happens: hang · To what, where: line
This is test 11 of lesson 5 «Handwriting: holding the pencil and joining up» 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 hang | nsubj |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | ADP | _ | 6 letters | case |
| 4 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 many | advmod |
| 5 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 letters | amod |
| 6 | letters | letter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 ★ | nmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 happy | case |
| 8 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 9 happy | punct |
| 9 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 letters | nmod |
| 10 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 9 happy | punct |
| 11 | hang | hang | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | below | below | ADP | _ | 14 line | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 line | det |
| 14 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hang | obl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 hang | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hang | infinitive | ★ ★ many letters in happy | the line | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent below line=Location |
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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
3: p, p and y
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 p | punct |
| 3 | p | p | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 3 | appos |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 p | punct |
| 5 | p | p | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 p | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 y | cc |
| 7 | y | y | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 p | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
1: just y
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 just | punct |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 1 1 | advmod |
| 4 | y | y | PUNCT | _ | 1 1 | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
2: p and p
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 p | punct |
| 3 | p | p | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 2 | appos |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 p | cc |
| 5 | p | p | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 p | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
0: none do
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 0 | 0 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 none | nummod |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 1 0 | punct |
| 3 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 4 do | nsubj |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | none | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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