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Test 9 · ★★★ · Plurals that make no sense: mice, sheep and geese

Your sister writes "There are three deers in the park." Fix it.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: sister, three deers, you · What happens: write, be, fix · To what, where: park · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★★★ 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: Your sister writes "There are three deers in the park."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 sister	nmod:poss
2	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 writes	nsubj
3	writes	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 are	punct
5	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	6 are	expl
6	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 writes	ccomp
7	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 deers	nummod
8	deers	deer	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 are	nsubj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 park	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 park	det
11	park	park	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 deers	nmod
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 are	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 are	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	present	Your sister						vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	does in a quote	present	three deers in the park			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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: Fix it.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fix	fix	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Fix	obj
3	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Fix	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fix	imperative	you not said here	park					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

There are three deer in the park

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 are	expl
2	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 deer	nummod
4	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 are	nsubj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 park	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 park	det
7	park	park	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 are	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	does	present	three deer			the park; there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in park=Location

Option 2

There is three deer in the park

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 is	expl
2	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 deer	nummod
4	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 is	nsubj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 park	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 park	det
7	park	park	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 is	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	does	present	three deer			the park; there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in park=Location

Option 3

There are three dear in the park

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 are	expl
2	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 dear	nummod
4	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 are	nsubj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 park	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 park	det
7	park	park	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 are	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	present	three dear			the park; there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in park=Location

Option 4

There are three deeres in the park

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 are	expl
2	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 deeres	nummod
4	deeres	deere	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 are	nsubj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 park	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 park	det
7	park	park	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 are	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	does	present	three deeres			the park; there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in park=Location

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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