Test 3 · ★ · Trick questions that catch quick thinkers
Finn scratches his head: "January's got 31... so it's got 28 in it too. Ohhh." So how many months have 28 days?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Finn, January, head, many months · What happens: scratch, get, have · To what, where: head, 31, 28, it
This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 181 «Trick questions that catch quick thinkers» of the world 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: Finn scratches his head: "January's got 31... so it's got 28 in it too.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finn | Finn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 scratches | nsubj |
| 2 | scratches | scratch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 head | nmod:poss |
| 4 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 scratches | obj |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 got | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 got | punct |
| 7 | January | January | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 got | nsubj |
| 8 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 got | aux |
| 9 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 scratches | conj |
| 10 | 31 | 31 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 got | obj |
| 11 | ... | ... | PUNCT | _ | 15 got | punct |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 got | advmod |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 got | nsubj |
| 14 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 got | aux |
| 15 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 scratches | conj |
| 16 | 28 | 28 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 got | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 it | case |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 got | obl |
| 19 | too | too | ADV | _ | 15 got | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 scratches | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scratch | present | Finn | Finn's head | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme | ||||
| 2 | get in a quote | present · passive | January | 31 | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer 31=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | get in a quote | present · passive | head | 28 | it | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer 28=Stimulus |
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: Ohhh."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ohhh | Ohhh | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ohhh | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ohhh | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Sentence 3: So how many months have 28 days?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 have | advmod |
| 2 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 many | advmod |
| 3 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 months | amod |
| 4 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 have | nsubj |
| 5 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | 28 | 28 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 days | nummod |
| 7 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 have | obj |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | many months | day | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Four
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
One
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
All 12
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 12 | det |
| 2 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Seven
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word 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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