Test 3 · ★ · Cousins: like a sister, posh, or far away
Mihi has 60 cousins and knows half. She meets 18 new ones at the gathering. How many does she still not know?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mihi · What happens: have, know, meet, not know · To what, where: 60 cousins, 18 new ones, gathering, many
This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 510 «Cousins: like a sister, posh, or far away» 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: Mihi has 60 cousins and knows half.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mihi | Mihi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 has | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | 60 | 60 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 cousins | nummod |
| 4 | cousins | cousin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 has | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 knows | cc |
| 6 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 has | conj |
| 7 | half | half | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 6 knows | advmod |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 has | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Mihi | 60 cousins | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cousin=Patient | ||||
| 2 | know | present | Mihi not said here | half property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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: She meets 18 new ones at the gathering.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 meets | nsubj |
| 2 | meets | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | 18 | 18 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 ones | nummod |
| 4 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 ones | amod |
| 5 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 meets | obj |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 gathering | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 gathering | det |
| 8 | gathering | gathering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 meets | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 meets | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | present | Mihi | 18 new ones | the gathering | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Co-Agent |
Sentence 3: How many does she still not know?
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 | 7 know | obj |
| 3 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 know | aux |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 know | nsubj |
| 5 | still | still | ADV | _ | 7 know | advmod |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 know | advmod |
| 7 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 know | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | present · do-support | Mihi | many | still | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer many=Stimulus |
The options
Option 1
30
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 2 · ✓ the right answer
12
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
42
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 42 | 42 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
18
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 18 | 18 | 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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