Test 2 · The big language quiz
Your little cousin says "I saw three gooses and two mouses." What's the right way to say it?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: little cousin, right way · What happens: say, see, be · To what, where: three gooses, way · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 2 of lesson 40 «The big language quiz» 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 little cousin says "I saw three gooses and two mouses."
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 | 3 cousin | nmod:poss |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 cousin | amod |
| 3 | cousin | cousin | 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 saw | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 saw | nsubj |
| 7 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 says | ccomp |
| 8 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 gooses | nummod |
| 9 | gooses | goose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 saw | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 mouses | cc |
| 11 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 mouses | nummod |
| 12 | mouses | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 gooses | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 saw | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 saw | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Your little cousin | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | see in a quote | past | Your little cousin = cousin | three gooses and two mouses | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer goose=Stimulus |
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 right 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 | right | right | 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 right way | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | the right way not said here | way | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Three gooses and two mice
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 gooses | nummod |
| 2 | gooses | goose | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 mice | cc |
| 4 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 mice | nummod |
| 5 | mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 gooses | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Three goose and two mouse
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 goose | nummod |
| 2 | goose | goose | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 mouse | cc |
| 4 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 mouse | nummod |
| 5 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 goose | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Three geeses and two mices
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 geeses | nummod |
| 2 | geeses | gees | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 mices | cc |
| 4 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 mices | nummod |
| 5 | mices | mice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 geeses | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Three geese and two mice
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 geese | nummod |
| 2 | geese | goose | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 mice | cc |
| 4 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 mice | nummod |
| 5 | mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 geese | conj |
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/40-the-big-language-quiz/t2/