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Test 6 · ★★★ · Plurals that make no sense: mice, sheep and geese

In a cartoon, a fisherman shouts "I caught five fishes!" holding five cod. What's the normal way to say it?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fisherman, I, normal way · What happens: shout, catch, hold, be, say · To what, where: cartoon, five fishes, five cod, way · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★★★ 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: In a cartoon, a fisherman shouts "I caught five fishes!" holding five cod.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 cartoon	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cartoon	det
3	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 shouts	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 cartoon	punct
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 fisherman	det
6	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 shouts	nsubj
7	shouts	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 caught	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 caught	nsubj
10	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 shouts	ccomp
11	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 fishes	nummod
12	fishes	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 caught	obj
13	!	!	PUNCT	_	10 caught	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 caught	punct
15	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 caught	advcl
16	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 cod	nummod
17	cod	cod	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 holding	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 shouts	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	present	a fisherman			a cartoon			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	catch in a quote	past	a fisherman = fisherman	five fishes					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Theme
3	hold	gerund	I not said here	five cod					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cod=Theme

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's the normal way to say it?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 way	det
4	normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 way	amod
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 say	mark
7	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 way	acl
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 say	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the normal way						tree rules
2	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	the normal way not said here	way					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

I caught five fish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 caught	nsubj
2	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 fish	nummod
4	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 caught	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	past	I	five fish					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Theme

Option 2

I caught five fishies

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 caught	nsubj
2	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 fishies	nummod
4	fishies	fishy	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 caught	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	past	I	five fishies					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fishy=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

It's perfect, fishes is the only plural

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 perfect	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 perfect	cop
3	perfect	perfect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 fishes	punct
5	fishes	fish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 perfect	conj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 plural	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 plural	det
8	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 plural	amod
9	plural	plural	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 perfect	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					perfect property	tree rules
2	fish	present							vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	present		the only plural					tree rules

Option 4

I caught five fishs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 caught	nsubj
2	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 fishs	nummod
4	fishs	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 caught	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	past	I	five fishs					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Theme

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