Test 12 · ★★★ · Alice's fall and her sizes: falling, the centre of the Ear…
★★★ Alice grows from 10 inches to 9 feet (108 inches). About how many times taller has she become?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★ · What happens: grow, become
This is test 12 · ★★★ of lesson 41 «Alice's fall and her sizes: falling, the centre of the Earth, giants and tiny people» of the physics 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: ★★★ Alice grows from 10 inches to 9 feet (108 inches).
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 grows | nsubj |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | PUNCT | _ | 1 ★ | punct |
| 4 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 grows | nsubj |
| 5 | grows | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 inches | case |
| 7 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 inches | nummod |
| 8 | inches | inch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 grows | obl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 feet | case |
| 10 | 9 | 9 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 feet | nummod |
| 11 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 inches | nmod |
| 12 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 14 inches | punct |
| 13 | 108 | 108 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 inches | nummod |
| 14 | inches | inch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 feet | appos |
| 15 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 14 inches | punct |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 grows | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | present | ★ | from 10 inches to 9 feet | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP V NP.product PP.patient»: agent=Agent from inch=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: About how many times taller has she become?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | SCONJ | _ | 6 has | mark |
| 2 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 many | advmod |
| 3 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 has | nsubj |
| 4 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 taller | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | taller | tall | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 many | parataxis |
| 6 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 become | aux |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 become | nsubj |
| 8 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 become | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | present | ★ | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
About 100 times
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 100 | advmod |
| 2 | 100 | 100 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 times | nummod |
| 3 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
About 9 times
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 9 | advmod |
| 2 | 9 | 9 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 times | nummod |
| 3 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
About 2 times
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 2 | advmod |
| 2 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 times | nummod |
| 3 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
About 11 times
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 11 | advmod |
| 2 | 11 | 11 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 times | nummod |
| 3 | times | time | 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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