Test 11 · ★★★ · Plurals that make no sense: mice, sheep and geese
A puzzle: in a made-up language the plural of "pod" is "peed" and of "tok" is "teek". What is the plural of "lob"?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: plural · What happens: make up, pee, be · To what, where: puzzle, teek
This is test 11 · ★★★ 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: A puzzle: in a made-up language the plural of "pod" is "peed" and of "tok" is "teek".
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 puzzle | det |
| 2 | puzzle | puzzle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 peed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 puzzle | punct |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 language | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 language | det |
| 6 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 language | amod |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 up | punct |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 made | compound:prt |
| 9 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 puzzle | nmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 plural | det |
| 11 | plural | plural | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 language | appos |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 pod | case |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 pod | punct |
| 14 | pod | pod | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 plural | nmod |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 plural | punct |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 peed | aux:pass |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 peed | punct |
| 18 | peed | pee | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 peed | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 teek | cc |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 tok | case |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 tok | punct |
| 23 | tok | tok | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 teek | obl |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 tok | punct |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 teek | cop |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 teek | punct |
| 27 | teek | teek | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 peed | conj |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 teek | punct |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 peed | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make up | participle | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | pee in a quote | present · passive | a puzzle in a made language | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | teek | of tok | tree rules |
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: What is the plural of "lob"?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 plural | det |
| 4 | plural | plural | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 lob | case |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 lob | punct |
| 7 | lob | lob | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 plural | nmod |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 lob | punct |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the plural of lob | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
leeb
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leeb | leeb | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
lobs
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lobs | lob | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
lobben
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lobben | lobben | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
lib
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lib | lib | NOUN | 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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