Test 11 · ★★ · «Where's your dad?»: questions and cruel jokes
★★★ Five kids laughed at Jamal. Next day two of them said sorry, and one more kid joined in laughing. How many are still laughing at him?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★ ★, one more kid, many · What happens: laugh, say, join · To what, where: Jamal · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 524 ««Where's your dad?»: questions and cruel jokes» 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: ★★★ Five kids laughed at Jamal.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ★ | compound |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 laughed | nsubj |
| 4 | Five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 kids | nummod |
| 5 | kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 laughed | nsubj |
| 6 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 Jamal | case |
| 8 | Jamal | Jamal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 laughed | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 laughed | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | past | ★ ★ | Jamal | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «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: Next day two of them said sorry, and one more kid joined in laughing.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 day | amod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | flat |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 them | case |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 said | obl |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 said | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 joined | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 joined | cc |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 kid | nummod |
| 11 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 kid | amod |
| 12 | kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 joined | nsubj |
| 13 | joined | join | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 said | ccomp |
| 14 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 15 laughing | mark |
| 15 | laughing | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 joined | advcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | day | of kids = kid; sorry property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | join | participle | one more kid | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | laugh | gerund | one more kid not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Sentence 3: How many are still laughing at him?
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 | 5 laughing | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 laughing | aux |
| 4 | still | still | ADV | _ | 5 laughing | advmod |
| 5 | laughing | laugh | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 laughing | obl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 laughing | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | present · progressive | many | still | at Jamal | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
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 2
5
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
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.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
4
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4 | 4 | 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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