Test 10 · ★★ · Sounds right, but is wrong
Ellie: "My hand hurts, this party is a handshake factory." How many handshakes are there with 5 kids, each shaking every other hand once?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Ellie, party, many handshakes, each · What happens: hurt, be, shake · To what, where: handshake factory, other hand
This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 183 «Sounds right, but is wrong» 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: Ellie: "My hand hurts, this party is a handshake factory."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ellie | Ellie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 hurts | nsubj |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 hurts | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 hurts | punct |
| 4 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 hand | nmod:poss |
| 5 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hurts | nsubj |
| 6 | hurts | hurt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 factory | punct |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 party | det |
| 9 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 factory | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 factory | cop |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 factory | det |
| 12 | handshake | handshake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 factory | compound |
| 13 | factory | factory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hurts | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 factory | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 factory | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hurt in a quote | present | Ellie | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | this party | a handshake factory | 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 handshakes are there with 5 kids, each shaking every other hand once?
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 handshakes | amod |
| 3 | handshakes | handshake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 there | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 there | cop |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 kids | case |
| 7 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 kids | nummod |
| 8 | kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 there | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 shaking | punct |
| 10 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 shaking | nsubj |
| 11 | shaking | shake | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 kids | acl |
| 12 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 hand | det |
| 13 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 hand | amod |
| 14 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 shaking | obj |
| 15 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 11 shaking | advmod |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 there | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | many handshakes | with 5 kids; there property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | shake | gerund | each | every other hand | once property | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent hand=Patient |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
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.
Option 2
20
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 20 | 20 | 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
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.
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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