Test 9 · Adoption
★★★ Mila got her first yearly letter when she was 2. She is 10 now and got this year's letter. How many letters are in her box?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★, Mila, year, many letters · What happens: get, be, letter · To what, where: letter, 2, 10, box
This is test 9 of lesson 522 «Adoption» 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: ★★★ Mila got her first yearly letter when she was 2.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 got | nsubj |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | PUNCT | _ | 1 ★ | punct |
| 4 | Mila | Mila | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 got | nsubj |
| 5 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 letter | nmod:poss |
| 7 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 9 letter | advmod |
| 8 | yearly | yearly | ADV | _ | 9 letter | advmod |
| 9 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 got | obj |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 2 | advmod |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 2 | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 2 | cop |
| 13 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 got | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 got | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | ★ | Mila's letter | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer letter=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | ★ | 2 | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | letter | Mila | nom letter «communication transitive»: poss=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: She is 10 now and got this year's letter.
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 | 3 10 | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 10 | cop |
| 3 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 got | obl |
| 4 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 10 | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 got | cc |
| 6 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 year | det |
| 8 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 letter | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 year | case |
| 10 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 got | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 got | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | ★ | 10 | now | tree rules | |||
| 2 | get | past | this year's letter | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer letter=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | letter | this year | nom letter «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
Sentence 3: How many letters are in her box?
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 letters | amod |
| 3 | letters | letter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 box | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 box | cop |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 box | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 box | nmod:poss |
| 7 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 box | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | many letters | ★'s box | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
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 2
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 3 · ✓ the right answer
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 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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