Test 3 · The Australian walkabout: kangaroos, emus, wallabies and d…
A kangaroo walks slowly on its two front paws, two back feet and its tail. How many parts touch the ground?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: kangaroo, many parts · What happens: walk, touch · To what, where: two front paws, ground
This is test 3 of lesson 103 «The Australian walkabout: kangaroos, emus, wallabies and dingoes» of the biology 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: A kangaroo walks slowly on its two front paws, two back feet and its tail.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 kangaroo | det |
| 2 | kangaroo | kangaroo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 walks | nsubj |
| 3 | walks | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 3 walks | advmod |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 paws | case |
| 6 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 paws | nmod:poss |
| 7 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 paws | nummod |
| 8 | front | front | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 paws | amod |
| 9 | paws | paw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 walks | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 feet | punct |
| 11 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 feet | nummod |
| 12 | back | back | ADV | _ | 13 feet | compound |
| 13 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 paws | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 tail | cc |
| 15 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 tail | nmod:poss |
| 16 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 paws | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 walks | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | present | a kangaroo | kangaroo's two front paws and two back feet and kangaroo's tail | slowly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on paw=Trajectory |
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 parts touch the ground?
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 parts | amod |
| 3 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 touch | nsubj |
| 4 | touch | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 ground | det |
| 6 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 touch | obj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 touch | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | touch | present | many parts | the ground | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ground=Co-Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
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
3
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
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 4 · ✓ the right answer
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.
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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