Test 2 · ★★ · The favourite, the black sheep, covering for each other an…
Holly is 12, Fern 9, Pixie 6. Holly's winter coat fits a 12-year-old and gets passed down. How many years until Pixie is 12 and wears it?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Holly, winter coat, many years · What happens: be, fit, pass down, wear · To what, where: 12, 12-year-old, coat
This is test 2 · ★★ of lesson 509 «The favourite, the black sheep, covering for each other and hand-me-downs» 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: Holly is 12, Fern 9, Pixie 6.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Holly | Holly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 12 | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 12 | cop |
| 3 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 9 | punct |
| 5 | Fern | Fern | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 9 | nmod:unmarked |
| 6 | 9 | 9 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 12 | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 6 | punct |
| 8 | Pixie | pixie | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 6 | amod |
| 9 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 12 | conj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 12 | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Holly | 12 | tree rules |
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: Holly's winter coat fits a 12-year-old and gets passed down.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Holly | Holly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 coat | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Holly | case |
| 3 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 coat | compound |
| 4 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fits | nsubj |
| 5 | fits | fit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 12-year-old | det |
| 7 | 12-year-old | 12-year-old | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fits | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 passed | cc |
| 9 | gets | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 passed | aux:pass |
| 10 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 fits | conj |
| 11 | down | down | ADP | _ | 10 passed | compound:prt |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 fits | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fit | present | Holly's winter coat | a 12-year-old | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 12-year-old=Patient | ||||
| 2 | pass down | present · passive | Holly's winter coat not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V» |
Sentence 3: How many years until Pixie is 12 and wears it?
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 years | amod |
| 3 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 12 | nsubj |
| 4 | until | until | ADP | _ | 5 Pixie | case |
| 5 | Pixie | Pixie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 years | nmod |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 12 | cop |
| 7 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 wears | cc |
| 9 | wears | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 12 | conj |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 wears | obj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 12 | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | many years until Pixie | 12 | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | wear | present | many years until Pixie not said here | coat | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
9 years
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 9 | 9 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 years | nummod |
| 2 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
6 years
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 years | nummod |
| 2 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
12 years
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 years | nummod |
| 2 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
3 years
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 years | nummod |
| 2 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 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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