Test 11 · ★★★ · Pan, panic and Ulysses: the old myths and old words inside…
★★★ A set of pan-pipes has 8 pipes. The longest is 24 cm and each next pipe is 2 cm shorter. How long is the shortest pipe?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★, set, longest, next pipe · What happens: ★, have, be · To what, where: 8 pipes, 24 cm, shortest pipe
This is test 11 · ★★★ of lesson 43 «Pan, panic and Ulysses: the old myths and old words inside «The Wind in the Willows»» 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 set of pan-pipes has 8 pipes.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ★ | nsubj |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 set | det |
| 5 | set | set | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 has | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 pipes | case |
| 7 | pan | pan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pipes | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 pan | punct |
| 9 | pipes | pipe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 set | nmod |
| 10 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 ★ | ccomp |
| 11 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 pipes | nummod |
| 12 | pipes | pipe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 has | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ★ | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | present | ★ | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | have | present | a set of pan pipes | 8 pipes | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pipe=Patient |
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: The longest is 24 cm and each next pipe is 2 cm shorter.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 longest | det |
| 2 | longest | long | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 cm | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 cm | cop |
| 4 | 24 | 24 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 cm | nummod |
| 5 | cm | cm | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 shorter | cc |
| 7 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 pipe | det |
| 8 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 pipe | amod |
| 9 | pipe | pipe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 shorter | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 shorter | cop |
| 11 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 cm | nummod |
| 12 | cm | cm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 shorter | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | shorter | short | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 cm | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 cm | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the longest | 24 cm | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | each next pipe | 2 cm obl:unmarked; short property | tree rules |
Sentence 3: How long is the shortest pipe?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 long | advmod |
| 2 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 pipe | advmod |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 pipe | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 pipe | det |
| 5 | shortest | short | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 pipe | amod |
| 6 | pipe | pipe | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 pipe | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the shortest pipe | long property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
12 cm
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 cm | nummod |
| 2 | cm | cm | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
16 cm
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 16 | 16 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 cm | nummod |
| 2 | cm | cm | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
8 cm
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 cm | nummod |
| 2 | cm | cm | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
10 cm
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 cm | nummod |
| 2 | cm | cm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 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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