Test 10 · ★★★ · Plurals that make no sense: mice, sheep and geese
Mouse, mice. A louse is a tiny insect that can live in hair. Using the same old pattern, what is its plural?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: louse, tiny insect · What happens: be, live, use · To what, where: tiny insect, hair, same old pattern
This is test 10 · ★★★ of lesson 10 «Plurals that make no sense: mice, sheep and geese» of the language 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: Mouse, mice.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 mice | punct |
| 3 | mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Mouse | conj |
| 4 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Mouse | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Sentence 2: A louse is a tiny insect that can live in hair.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 louse | det |
| 2 | louse | louse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 insect | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 insect | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 insect | det |
| 5 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 insect | amod |
| 6 | insect | insect | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 live | nsubj |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 live | aux |
| 9 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 insect | acl:relcl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 hair | case |
| 11 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 live | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 insect | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a louse | a tiny insect | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | live | can | a tiny insect | hair | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hair=Location |
Sentence 3: Using the same old pattern, what is its plural?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Using | use | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 plural | advcl |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 pattern | det |
| 3 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 pattern | amod |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 pattern | amod |
| 5 | pattern | pattern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Using | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Using | punct |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 plural | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 plural | cop |
| 9 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 plural | nmod:poss |
| 10 | plural | plural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 plural | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | gerund | the same old pattern | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pattern=Patient | |||||
| 2 | is | present | plural property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
louses
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | louses | louse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | louse | present | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
leese
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leese | leese | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
lice
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lice | louse | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
lousen
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lousen | lousen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 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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