Test 11 · ★★ · Gaols, magistrates and old punishments: from the stocks to…
★★★ Toad gets 1 year, then 3 years, then 15 years, and the Chairman rounds the total up to twenty. If Toad had already served 9 months when he escaped, how many months of the twenty years were left?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★ ★, Chairman, Toad · What happens: get, round up, serve, escape, leave · To what, where: total, Toad
This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 84 «Gaols, magistrates and old punishments: from the stocks to the Children Act of 1908» of the history 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: ★★★ Toad gets 1 year, then 3 years, then 15 years, and the Chairman rounds the total up to twenty.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 ★ | compound |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gets | nsubj |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | ADP | _ | 4 Toad | case |
| 4 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 ★ | nmod |
| 5 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 year | nummod |
| 7 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gets | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 years | punct |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 years | advmod |
| 10 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 years | nummod |
| 11 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 gets | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 years | punct |
| 13 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 years | advmod |
| 14 | 15 | 15 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 years | nummod |
| 15 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 gets | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 rounds | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 rounds | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Chairman | det |
| 19 | Chairman | chairman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 rounds | nsubj |
| 20 | rounds | round | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 gets | parataxis |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 total | det |
| 22 | total | total | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 rounds | obj |
| 23 | up | up | ADP | _ | 20 rounds | compound:prt |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 twenty | case |
| 25 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 rounds | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 gets | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | ★ ★ ★ Toad | year | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | round up | present | the Chairman | the total | to twenty result | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent total=Patient to twenty=Result |
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: If Toad had already served 9 months when he escaped, how many months of the twenty years were left?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 served | mark |
| 2 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 served | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 served | aux |
| 4 | already | already | ADV | _ | 5 served | advmod |
| 5 | served | serve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 left | advcl |
| 6 | 9 | 9 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 months | nummod |
| 7 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 served | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 escaped | advmod |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 escaped | nsubj |
| 10 | escaped | escape | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 served | parataxis |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 months | punct |
| 12 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 many | advmod |
| 13 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 months | amod |
| 14 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 left | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 years | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 years | det |
| 17 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 years | nummod |
| 18 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 left | obl |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 left | aux:pass |
| 20 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 20 left | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | serve a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect · passive | Toad | month | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | escape | past | Toad | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | leave | past · passive | month; year | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V» |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
219
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 219 | 219 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
211
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 211 | 211 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
240
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 240 | 240 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
231
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 231 | 231 | 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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