Test 4 · ★ · Trick questions that catch quick thinkers
Grandad: "You did the sum perfect, pet, just the wrong sum." Seventeen sheep, all but 9 run off. How many are left?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Grandad, Seventeen sheep · What happens: do, run off, leave · To what, where: sum, many
This is test 4 · ★ 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: Grandad: "You did the sum perfect, pet, just the wrong sum."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Grandad | Grandad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 did | nsubj |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 did | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 did | punct |
| 4 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 did | nsubj |
| 5 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sum | det |
| 7 | sum | sum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 did | obj |
| 8 | perfect | perfect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 sum | amod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 pet | punct |
| 10 | pet | pet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sum | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 sum | punct |
| 12 | just | just | ADV | _ | 15 sum | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 sum | det |
| 14 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 sum | amod |
| 15 | sum | sum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 did | parataxis |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 sum | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 sum | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | past | Grandad | the sum and pet | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sum=Eventuality |
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: Seventeen sheep, all but 9 run off.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Seventeen | seventeen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 sheep | nummod |
| 2 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 run | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 run | punct |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 run | nsubj |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 9 | cc |
| 6 | 9 | 9 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 all | conj |
| 7 | run | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | off | off | ADP | _ | 7 run | compound:prt |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 run | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run off | present | Seventeen sheep | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Sentence 3: How many are left?
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 | 4 left | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 left | aux:pass |
| 4 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 left | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | present · passive | many | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
17
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 17 | 17 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
0
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 0 | 0 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
8
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
9
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 9 | 9 | 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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