Test 9 · Living in a children's home
★★★ Luca's mum is meant to visit once a month. This year she came 9 times. How many visits did she miss?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mum, many visits · What happens: mean, visit, come, miss · To what, where: mum
This is test 9 of lesson 520 «Living in a children's home» 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: ★★★ Luca's mum is meant to visit once a month.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | PUNCT | _ | 8 meant | punct |
| 4 | Luca | Luca | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 mum | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Luca | case |
| 6 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 meant | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 meant | aux:pass |
| 8 | meant | mean | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 ★ | acl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 visit | mark |
| 10 | visit | visit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 meant | xcomp |
| 11 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 10 visit | advmod |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 month | det |
| 13 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 once | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 ★ | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present · passive | Luca's mum | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | visit not said to happen | to-infinitive | once property | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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: This year she came 9 times.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 year | det |
| 2 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | 9 | 9 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 times | nummod |
| 6 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 came | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | mum | time; year | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Sentence 3: How many visits did she miss?
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 visits | amod |
| 3 | visits | visit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 miss | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 miss | aux |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 miss | nsubj |
| 6 | miss | miss | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 miss | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | miss | past · do-support | many visits | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
2
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
9
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 9 | 9 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
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 4 · ✓ the right answer
3
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3 | 3 | 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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