Test 9 · ★ · Trick questions that catch quick thinkers
Amira's grandpa, his son Dad, and Dad's son Omar go fishing. How many fathers are in the boat?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: grandpa, many fathers · What happens: go, be · To what, where: fishing, boat
This is test 9 · ★ 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: Amira's grandpa, his son Dad, and Dad's son Omar go fishing.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Amira | Amira | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 grandpa | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Amira | case |
| 3 | grandpa | grandpa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 go | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Dad | punct |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 Dad | nmod:poss |
| 6 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Dad | compound |
| 7 | Dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 grandpa | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 go | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 go | cc |
| 10 | Dad | Dad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 son | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 Dad | case |
| 12 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 go | nsubj |
| 13 | Omar | Omar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 son | appos |
| 14 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | fishing | fishing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 go | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 go | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | Amira's grandpa and Amira's son Dad | fishing | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fishing=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: How many fathers are in the boat?
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 fathers | amod |
| 3 | fathers | father | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 boat | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 boat | cop |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 boat | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 boat | det |
| 7 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 boat | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | many fathers | the boat | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Two
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Three
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
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 4
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.
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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