Test 12 · ★★★ · Cricket and rugby, baseball and American football
3 teammates are on base, then the hitter whacks it so far that all 3 and the hitter get round to home. How many runs?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: 3 teammates, hitter, 3, many · What happens: be, whack, get, run · To what, where: base
This is test 12 · ★★★ of lesson 45 «Cricket and rugby, baseball and American football» of the medicine 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: 3 teammates are on base, then the hitter whacks it so far that all 3 and the hitter get round to home.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 teammates | nummod |
| 2 | teammates | teammate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 base | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 base | cop |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 base | case |
| 5 | base | base | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 whacks | punct |
| 7 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 whacks | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 hitter | det |
| 9 | hitter | hitter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 whacks | nsubj |
| 10 | whacks | whack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 base | acl:relcl |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 whacks | obj |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 far | advmod |
| 13 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 whacks | advmod |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 get | mark |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 3 | det |
| 16 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 20 get | nsubj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 hitter | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 hitter | det |
| 19 | hitter | hitter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 3 | conj |
| 20 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 whacks | advcl |
| 21 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 get | xcomp |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 home | case |
| 23 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 round | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 base | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | 3 teammates | base | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | whack | present | the hitter | base | then | far property | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||
| 3 | get | present | all 3 and the hitter | round property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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: How many runs?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 many | advmod |
| 2 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 runs | nsubj |
| 3 | runs | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 runs | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | present | many | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
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.
Option 2
6
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
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 4
1
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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