Test 8 · ★★ · The only child: all the attention and wanting a sibling

★★★ Ngaio's family plays cards for 30 minutes every night. Her mate's family has 6 kids and the parents have 30 minutes a night to share equally among them. How many minutes a week does each of her mate's siblings get?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★ ★, family, parents, each · What happens: play, have, share, get · To what, where: cards, 6 kids

This is test 8 · ★★ of lesson 499 «The only child: all the attention and wanting a sibling» 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: ★★★ Ngaio's family plays cards for 30 minutes every night.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 ★	compound
2	★	★	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 plays	nsubj
3	★	★	ADP	_	6 family	case
4	Ngaio	Ngaio	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 family	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Ngaio	case
6	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ★	nmod
7	plays	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	cards	card	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 plays	obj
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 minutes	case
10	30	30	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 minutes	nummod
11	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 plays	obl
12	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	13 night	det
13	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 plays	obl:unmarked
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 plays	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	present	★ ★ ★ Ngaio's family	cards			minute; night		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent card=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: Her mate's family has 6 kids and the parents have 30 minutes a night to share equally among them.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mate	nmod:poss
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 family	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 mate	case
4	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 has	nsubj
5	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	6	6	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 kids	nummod
7	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 has	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 have	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 parents	det
10	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 have	nsubj
11	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 has	conj
12	30	30	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	13 minutes	nummod
13	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 have	obj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 night	det
15	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 have	obl:unmarked
16	to	to	PART	_	17 share	mark
17	share	share	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 have	advcl
18	equally	equally	ADV	_	17 share	advmod
19	among	among	ADP	_	20 them	case
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 share	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 has	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	★'s mate's family	6 kids			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kid=Patient
2	have	present	the parents		minute; night		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	share	to-infinitive	the parents not said here			among parents = parent; equally property	tree rules

Sentence 3: How many minutes a week does each of her mate's siblings get?

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 minutes	amod
3	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 get	obl:unmarked
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 week	det
5	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 minutes	nmod:unmarked
6	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 get	aux
7	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	13 get	nsubj
8	of	of	ADP	_	12 siblings	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 mate	nmod:poss
10	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 siblings	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 mate	case
12	siblings	sibling	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 each	nmod
13	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present · do-support	each				minute		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	5	5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	35	35	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	30	30	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

210

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	210	210	NUM	NumForm=Digit 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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