Test 8 · ★★ · To a hundred, first and last, and the first colour
In hide-and-seek the seeker counts to sto. Compared with counting to DEsyat, you have…
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, seeker · What happens: seek, count, compare, have · To what, where: hide, sto, DEsyat
This is test 8 · ★★ of lesson 9 «To a hundred, first and last, and the first colour» of the Ukrainian street 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: In hide-and-seek the seeker counts to sto.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 hide | case |
| 2 | hide | hide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 seek | obl |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 seek | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 seek | cc |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 and | punct |
| 6 | seek | seek | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 seeker | det |
| 8 | seeker | seeker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 counts | nsubj |
| 9 | counts | count | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 seek | ccomp |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 sto | case |
| 11 | sto | sto | X | Foreign=Yes | 9 counts | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 seek | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seek | imperative | you not said here | hide | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | count | present | the seeker | sto | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sto=Theme |
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: Compared with counting to DEsyat, you have…
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Compared | compare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 3 counting | mark |
| 3 | counting | count | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 have | advcl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 DEsyat | case |
| 5 | DEsyat | DEsyat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 counting | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 counting | punct |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 have | nsubj |
| 8 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Compared | advcl |
| 9 | … | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Compared | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | compare | participle | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | count | gerund | you not said here | DEsyat | vn matter-91 «NP V PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to desyat=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | have | present | you | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Exactly the same time to hide
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 4 time | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 3 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 hide | mark |
| 6 | hide | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 time | acl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | to-infinitive | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
Twice as long
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 3 long | advmod |
| 2 | as | as | ADV | _ | 3 long | advmod |
| 3 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Less time
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 time | amod |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Ten times longer to hide
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 times | nummod |
| 2 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 longer | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | longer | long | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 hide | mark |
| 5 | hide | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 longer | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | to-infinitive | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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