Test 9 · ★★ · Grammar puzzles, part one
Puzzle: how many of these are verbs? "jump, happy, think, quickly, is"
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Puzzle jump · What happens: be, think · To what, where: many verbs
This is test 9 · ★★ of lesson 11 «Grammar puzzles, part one» 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Puzzle | puzzle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 jump | compound |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 verbs | punct |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 many | advmod |
| 4 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 verbs | amod |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 these | case |
| 6 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 many | nmod |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 verbs | cop |
| 8 | verbs | verb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Puzzle | conj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Puzzle | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Puzzle | punct |
| 11 | jump | jump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 happy | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 happy | punct |
| 13 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 think | punct |
| 15 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 13 happy | parataxis |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 quickly | punct |
| 17 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 15 think | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 think | punct |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 happy | cop |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 happy | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Puzzle jump not said here | many verbs | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | Puzzle jump | happy property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other in a quote | infinitive | quickly property | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
2
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
4
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
5
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
3
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/11-grammar-puzzles-part-one/t9/