Test 4 · ★★★ · Family parties, aunts and uncles, and the row nobody expla…
Nan's party: 40 relatives sit at tables of 6, and every table must be full except one. How many tables are needed?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: 40 relatives, table · What happens: sit, be, need · To what, where: party, tables, many tables
This is test 4 · ★★★ of lesson 511 «Family parties, aunts and uncles, and the row nobody explains» 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: Nan's party: 40 relatives sit at tables of 6, and every table must be full except one.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nan | Nan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 party | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Nan | case |
| 3 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sit | obl |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 party | punct |
| 5 | 40 | 40 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 relatives | nummod |
| 6 | relatives | relative | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 sit | nsubj |
| 7 | sit | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 tables | case |
| 9 | tables | table | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 sit | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 6 | case |
| 11 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 tables | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 full | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 full | cc |
| 14 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 table | det |
| 15 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 full | nsubj |
| 16 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 full | aux |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 full | cop |
| 18 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 sit | conj |
| 19 | except | except | ADP | _ | 20 one | case |
| 20 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 full | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 sit | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | present | 40 relatives | Nan's party | tables of 6 | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at table=Location | |||
| 2 | is | must | every table | except one; full property | 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: How many tables are needed?
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 tables | amod |
| 3 | tables | table | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 needed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 needed | aux:pass |
| 5 | needed | need | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 needed | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need | present · passive | many tables | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
7
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 7 | 7 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
6
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
40
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 40 | 40 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
8
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 8 | 8 | 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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