Test 11 · ★ · Every family is different
Four kids at a table: one lives with Mum, one with two dads, one with Nan, one in a children's home with carers. How many of them have a real family?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: one, many · What happens: live, have · To what, where: real family
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 486 «Every family is different» of the everyday 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: Four kids at a table: one lives with Mum, one with two dads, one with Nan, one in a children's home with carers.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 kids | nummod |
| 2 | kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 table | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 table | det |
| 5 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 kids | nmod |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 lives | punct |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 lives | nsubj |
| 8 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 kids | conj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 Mum | case |
| 10 | Mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lives | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 one | punct |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 Mum | appos |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 dads | case |
| 14 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 dads | nummod |
| 15 | dads | dad | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 one | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 one | punct |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 one | conj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 Nan | case |
| 19 | Nan | Nan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 one | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 one | punct |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 one | conj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 home | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 children | det |
| 24 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 home | nmod:poss |
| 25 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 24 children | case |
| 26 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 one | nmod |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 carers | case |
| 28 | carers | carer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 lives | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 kids | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | one | with Mum; with carers | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with mum=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.
Sentence 2: How many of them have a real family?
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 | 5 have | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 them | case |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 many | nmod |
| 5 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 family | det |
| 7 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 family | amod |
| 8 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 have | obj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | many of carers | a real family | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent family=Patient |
The options
Option 1
None of them
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | None | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 them | case |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 None | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Only one
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 2 one | advmod |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Only two
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 2 two | advmod |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
All four
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 four | det |
| 2 | four | four | 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.
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