Test 9 · ★★ · Minding the little ones: «you're the oldest»
★★★ Kacper puts his 2 brothers to bed 5 nights a week, and reads each of them one story a night. Mum does Saturdays and Sundays. How many stories does Kacper read in 2 weeks?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★, Mum, many stories · What happens: put, read, do · To what, where: 2 brothers, one story
This is test 9 · ★★ of lesson 502 «Minding the little ones: «you're the oldest»» 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: ★★★ Kacper puts his 2 brothers to bed 5 nights a week, and reads each of them one story a night.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 puts | nsubj |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | ADP | _ | 4 Kacper | case |
| 4 | Kacper | Kacper | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 ★ | nmod |
| 5 | puts | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 brothers | nummod |
| 8 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 puts | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 bed | case |
| 10 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 puts | obl |
| 11 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 nights | nummod |
| 12 | nights | night | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 puts | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 week | det |
| 14 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 nights | nmod:unmarked |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 reads | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 reads | cc |
| 17 | reads | read | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 puts | conj |
| 18 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 story | det |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 them | case |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 each | nmod |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 story | nummod |
| 22 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 reads | obj |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 night | det |
| 24 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 reads | obl:unmarked |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 puts | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | present | ★ ★ Kacper | ★'s 2 brothers | night | to bed | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent brother=Goal | ||
| 2 | read | present | ★ ★ Kacper not said here | each one story | night | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Topic |
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: Mum does Saturdays and Sundays.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 does | nsubj |
| 2 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Saturdays | Saturday | PROPN | Number=Plur | 2 does | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 Sundays | cc |
| 5 | Sundays | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 Saturdays | conj |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 does | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | Mum | saturday | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Sentence 3: How many stories does Kacper read in 2 weeks?
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 stories | amod |
| 3 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 read | nsubj |
| 4 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 read | aux |
| 5 | Kacper | Kacper | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 read | nsubj |
| 6 | read | read | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 weeks | case |
| 8 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 weeks | nummod |
| 9 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 read | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 read | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | read | present · do-support | many stories | week | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
14
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 14 | 14 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
10
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
28
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 28 | 28 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
20
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 20 | 20 | 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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