Test 4 · ★★★ · Sounds wrong, but is right
Mum: "Ten gaps, Pete, eleven posts." How many posts does a 5-metre fence with a post every metre need?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: many posts · What happens: do · To what, where: metre fence
This is test 4 · ★★★ of lesson 182 «Sounds wrong, but is right» 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: Mum: "Ten gaps, Pete, eleven posts."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 gaps | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 gaps | punct |
| 4 | Ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 gaps | nummod |
| 5 | gaps | gap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Mum | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Pete | punct |
| 7 | Pete | Pete | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 gaps | appos |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 posts | punct |
| 9 | eleven | eleven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 posts | nummod |
| 10 | posts | post | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 gaps | appos |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 posts | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 posts | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Sentence 2: How many posts does a 5-metre fence with a post every metre need?
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 posts | amod |
| 3 | posts | post | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 does | nsubj |
| 4 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 fence | det |
| 6 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 metre | nummod |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 5 | punct |
| 8 | metre | metre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fence | compound |
| 9 | fence | fence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 does | obj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 post | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 post | det |
| 12 | post | post | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fence | nmod |
| 13 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 need | det |
| 14 | metre | metre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 need | compound |
| 15 | need | need | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 does | obj |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 does | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | many posts | a metre fence | with a post | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
6
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
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.
Option 3
5
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
10
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 10 | 10 | 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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