Test 7 · ★ · Phones and how a call travels
Count them: on a walkie-talkie game, Sam says 3 messages and Lee says 4, each ending with over. How many times is over said?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Sam, Lee, each · What happens: count, say, end · To what, where: them, talkie game, 3 messages, 4, many times · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 35 «Phones and how a call travels» of the technology 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: Count them: on a walkie-talkie game, Sam says 3 messages and Lee says 4, each ending with over.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Count | count | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Count | obj |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 1 Count | punct |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 game | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 game | det |
| 6 | walkie | walkie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 talkie | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 walkie | punct |
| 8 | talkie | talkie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 game | compound |
| 9 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Count | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 says | punct |
| 11 | Sam | Sam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 says | nsubj |
| 12 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Count | parataxis |
| 13 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 messages | nummod |
| 14 | messages | message | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 says | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 says | cc |
| 16 | Lee | Lee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 says | nsubj |
| 17 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 says | conj |
| 18 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 says | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 ending | punct |
| 20 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 ending | nsubj |
| 21 | ending | end | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 says | advcl |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 over | case |
| 23 | over | over | ADV | _ | 21 ending | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Count | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | count | imperative | you not said here | them = they | a talkie game | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | Sam | 3 messages | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent message=Topic | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | Lee | 4 | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent 4=Topic | ||||
| 4 | end | gerund | each | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality PP.subeventuality»: agent=Affector with over=Subeventuality |
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 times is over said?
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 times | amod |
| 3 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 said | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | aux:pass |
| 5 | over | over | ADV | _ | 6 said | advmod |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present · passive | many times | over property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |
The options
Option 1
12
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
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 3 · ✓ the right answer
7
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 7 | 7 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
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.
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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