Test 2 · ★★ · Friends who only come for the pool: rich kids and rumours
Jasper says no to buying snacks. Two of the five kids stop talking to him. How many stayed his friends?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Jasper, five kids, many · What happens: say, buy, stop, talk, stay · To what, where: no, snacks, Jasper, friends · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 2 · ★★ of lesson 492 «Friends who only come for the pool: rich kids and rumours» 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: Jasper says no to buying snacks.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jasper | Jasper | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 says | nsubj |
| 2 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 says | obj |
| 4 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 5 buying | mark |
| 5 | buying | buy | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 says | advcl |
| 6 | snacks | snack | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 buying | obj |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Jasper | no | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent no=Topic | ||||
| 2 | buy | gerund | Jasper not said here | snacks | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snack=Theme |
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: Two of the five kids stop talking to him.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 6 stop | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 kids | det |
| 4 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 kids | nummod |
| 5 | kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 stop | nsubj |
| 6 | stop | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Two | advcl |
| 7 | talking | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 stop | xcomp |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 talking | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Two | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | present | the five kids | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | talk | gerund | the five kids not said here | Jasper | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to he=Co-Agent |
Sentence 3: How many stayed his friends?
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 stayed | nsubj |
| 3 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 friends | nmod:poss |
| 5 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 stayed | obj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 stayed | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | past | many | Jasper's friends | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme friend=Location |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
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.
Option 2
Seven
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Two
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 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
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.
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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