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Test 10 · ★ · Off with her head and the finest house on the river: Alice…

★★★ Toad's song says the clever men at Oxford «none of them know one half as much» as Toad. If that were true and Toad knew 100 facts, what is the most any Oxford man could know?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★ ★, none, Toad, that, Oxford man · What happens: say, know, sing, be · To what, where: clever men, Oxford, one half, 100 facts · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 54 «Off with her head and the finest house on the river: Alice and Toad» 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: ★★★ Toad's song says the clever men at Oxford «none of them know one half as much» as Toad.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 ★	compound
2	★	★	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 says	nsubj
3	★	★	ADP	_	6 song	case
4	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 song	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Toad	case
6	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ★	nmod
7	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 men	det
9	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 men	amod
10	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 says	obj
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 Oxford	case
12	Oxford	Oxford	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 men	nmod
13	«	«	PUNCT	_	17 know	punct
14	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	17 know	nsubj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 them	case
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 none	nmod
17	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 says	conj
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 half	nummod
19	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	17 know	obj
20	as	as	ADV	_	21 much	advmod
21	much	much	ADV	_	17 know	advmod
22	»	»	PUNCT	_	17 know	punct
23	as	as	ADP	_	24 Toad	case
24	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 know	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	★ ★ ★ Toad's song	the clever men		Oxford			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent man=Topic
2	know in a quote	present	none	one half				as Toad	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer half=Stimulus as toad=Attribute
3	sing		Toad						nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=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.

Sentence 2: If that were true and Toad knew 100 facts, what is the most any Oxford man could know?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 true	mark
2	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 true	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 true	cop
4	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 knew	cc
6	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 knew	nsubj
7	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 true	conj
8	100	100	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 facts	nummod
9	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 knew	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 know	punct
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 know	obj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 what	cop
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 most	det
14	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	19 know	advmod
15	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	17 man	det
16	Oxford	Oxford	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 man	compound
17	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 know	nsubj
18	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 know	aux
19	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 facts	conj
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	that					true property	tree rules
2	know	past	Toad	100 facts					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer fact=Stimulus
3	is a	present		100 facts					tree rules
4	know	could	any Oxford man						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

More than 200 facts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	More	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	3 200	advmod
2	than	than	ADP	_	1 More	fixed
3	200	200	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 facts	nummod
4	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

All the facts there are

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 facts	det:predet
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 facts	det
3	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 are	nsubj
4	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	5 are	expl
5	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	does	present	all facts			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Exactly 100 facts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Exactly	exactly	ADV	_	2 100	advmod
2	100	100	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 facts	nummod
3	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Less than 50 facts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	3 50	advmod
2	than	than	ADP	_	1 Less	fixed
3	50	50	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 facts	nummod
4	facts	fact	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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