Test 9 · ★★ · Friends who only come for the pool: rich kids and rumours
Monty told his friends the pool was closed. Six kids stopped coming, then one came back when he heard it was open again. How many true friends does that suggest Monty has from the twelve?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Monty, Six kids, one, pool, it, many true friends · What happens: tell, close, stop, come, come back, hear · To what, where: friends, pool, twelve · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 9 · ★★ 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: Monty told his friends the pool was closed.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Monty | Monty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 told | nsubj |
| 2 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 friends | nmod:poss |
| 4 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 told | iobj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 pool | det |
| 6 | pool | pool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 closed | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 closed | aux:pass |
| 8 | closed | close | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 told | ccomp |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 told | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | Monty | Monty's friends | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent friend=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | close | past · passive | the pool | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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: Six kids stopped coming, then one came back when he heard it was open again.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 kids | nummod |
| 2 | kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 stopped | nsubj |
| 3 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 stopped | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 came | punct |
| 6 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 came | advmod |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 came | nsubj |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stopped | conj |
| 9 | back | back | ADV | _ | 8 came | advmod |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 heard | advmod |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 heard | nsubj |
| 12 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 came | advcl |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 open | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 open | cop |
| 15 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 heard | ccomp |
| 16 | again | again | ADV | _ | 12 heard | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stopped | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | past | Six kids | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | come | gerund | Six kids not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | come back | past | one | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | hear | past | pool | again | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | is | past | it | open property | tree rules |
Sentence 3: How many true friends does that suggest Monty has from the twelve?
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 | 4 friends | amod |
| 3 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 friends | amod |
| 4 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 suggest | nsubj |
| 5 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 suggest | aux |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 suggest | nsubj |
| 7 | suggest | suggest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | Monty | Monty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 has | nsubj |
| 9 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 suggest | ccomp |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 twelve | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 twelve | det |
| 12 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 has | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 suggest | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suggest speech: suggest | present · do-support | many true friends | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | have | present | Monty | the twelve | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
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 2
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 3
Twelve
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
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.
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