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Test 4 · Nouns: the names of things, people, places and ideas

Your sister rolls her eyes: "less sweets, fewer sweets, who cares, innit?" What's the fair answer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sister, less sweets, fair answer · What happens: roll, care, innit, be · To what, where: eyes · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 of lesson 2 «Nouns: the names of things, people, places and ideas» 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 rolls her eyes: "less sweets, fewer sweets, who cares, innit?"

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 rolls	nsubj
3	rolls	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 eyes	nmod:poss
5	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 rolls	obj
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 sweets	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 sweets	punct
8	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 sweets	amod
9	sweets	sweet	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 rolls	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sweets	punct
11	fewer	few	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 sweets	amod
12	sweets	sweet	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 sweets	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 cares	punct
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 cares	nsubj
15	cares	care	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 sweets	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 innit	punct
17	innit	innit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 rolls	parataxis
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 rolls	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 rolls	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roll	present	Your sister	sister's eyes					tree rules
2	care in a quote	present	less sweets and fewer sweets						vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	innit in a quote	infinitive							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's the fair answer?

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 answer	det
4	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 answer	amod
5	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the fair answer						tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Fewer is only used for money

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fewer	few	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 used	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 used	aux:pass
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 used	advmod
4	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 money	case
6	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 used	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	present · passive		Fewer				for money	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: subject=Theme for money=Eventuality

Option 2

Less is always right and fewer is old-fashioned

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 right	amod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 right	cop
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 right	advmod
4	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 fashioned	advcl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 fewer	cc
6	fewer	few	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 right	conj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 fashioned	cop
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 fashioned	amod
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 old	punct
10	fashioned	fashioned	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						always, right property	tree rules
2	be								tree rules
3	is	present						fashioned property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

In school writing say fewer for things you count, and don't bully people over it

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 writing	case
2	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 writing	compound
3	writing	writing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 say	obl
4	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	fewer	few	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 say	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 things	case
7	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 fewer	obl
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 count	nsubj
9	count	count	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 things	acl:relcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 bully	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 bully	cc
12	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	14 bully	aux
13	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 bully	advmod
14	bully	bully	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 say	conj
15	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 bully	obj
16	over	over	ADP	_	17 it	case
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 bully	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present		fewer		school writing			vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent few=Theme in writing=Manner
2	count	present	you	things not said here					vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme
3	not bully	infinitive · do-support			people	writing			vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Beneficiary

Option 4

It's a terrible mistake that makes you sound stupid, so always correct people loudly

The tree, 15 words

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	5 mistake	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 mistake	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 mistake	det
4	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 mistake	amod
5	mistake	mistake	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 makes	nsubj
7	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 mistake	acl:relcl
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 makes	obj
9	sound	sound	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 makes	xcomp
10	stupid	stupid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 sound	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 people	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	14 correct	advmod
13	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	14 correct	advmod
14	correct	correct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 people	amod
15	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 mistake	parataxis
16	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	15 people	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a terrible mistake					tree rules
2	make	present	a terrible mistake	you					tree rules
3	sound	infinitive	you not said here					stupid property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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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