Test 8 · ★★★ · Plurals that make no sense: mice, sheep and geese
A Glaswegian dad says "Two weans and a dug, that's me." ("Dug" is dog in Scots.) How many children?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Glaswegian dad, that · What happens: say, be · To what, where: Two weans, Glaswegian dad, Dug dog, Scots · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 8 · ★★★ 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 Glaswegian dad says "Two weans and a dug, that's me."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 dad | det |
| 2 | Glaswegian | glaswegian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 dad | amod |
| 3 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 says | nsubj |
| 4 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 weans | punct |
| 6 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 weans | nummod |
| 7 | weans | wean | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 says | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 dug | cc |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 dug | det |
| 10 | dug | dug | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 weans | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 me | punct |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 me | nsubj |
| 13 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 me | cop |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 weans | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 weans | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 weans | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | a Glaswegian dad | Two weans and a dug | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent wean=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | that | a Glaswegian dad = dad | 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: ("Dug" is dog in Scots.)
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 6 dog | punct |
| 2 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Dug | punct |
| 3 | Dug | Dug | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 dog | compound |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Dug | punct |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 dog | cop |
| 6 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 Scots | case |
| 8 | Scots | Scot | PROPN | Number=Plur | 6 dog | nmod |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 dog | punct |
| 10 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 6 dog | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Dug dog | Scots | tree rules |
Sentence 3: How many children?
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 | 3 children | amod |
| 3 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 children | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Two
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
One
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Three
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
None
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | None | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 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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