Test 9 · ★★★ · Sounds wrong, but is right
Ella: "Told ya, it's a paper brick now." How many layers would there be after 8 folds?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Ella, many layers · What happens: tell, be · To what, where: paper brick · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 9 · ★★★ 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: Ella: "Told ya, it's a paper brick now."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ella | Ella | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 brick | nsubj |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 ya | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 ya | punct |
| 4 | Told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 ya | amod |
| 5 | ya | ya | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ella | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ella | punct |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 brick | nsubj |
| 8 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 brick | cop |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 brick | det |
| 10 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 brick | compound |
| 11 | brick | brick | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 brick | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 brick | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 brick | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert in a quote | participle | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | Ella | a paper brick | now | tree rules |
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 layers would there be after 8 folds?
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 layers | amod |
| 3 | layers | layer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 folds | nsubj |
| 4 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 there | aux |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 layers | advmod |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 folds | cop |
| 7 | after | after | ADP | _ | 9 folds | case |
| 8 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 folds | nummod |
| 9 | folds | fold | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 folds | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | infinitive | many layers | after 8 folds | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
256
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 256 | 256 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
128
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 128 | 128 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
16
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 16 | 16 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
64
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 64 | 64 | 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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