Test 5 · Swamps, marshes, mangroves and bogs
Josh counts 3 herons and 2 mudskippers by the pond. How many hearts is that?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Josh, many hearts · What happens: count, be · To what, where: 3 herons
This is test 5 of lesson 11 «Swamps, marshes, mangroves and bogs» 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: Josh counts 3 herons and 2 mudskippers by the pond.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Josh | Josh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 counts | nsubj |
| 2 | counts | count | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 herons | nummod |
| 4 | herons | heron | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 counts | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 mudskippers | cc |
| 6 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 mudskippers | nummod |
| 7 | mudskippers | mudskipper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 herons | conj |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 pond | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 pond | det |
| 10 | pond | pond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 counts | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 counts | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | count | present | Josh | 3 herons and 2 mudskippers | by the pond | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heron=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 hearts is that?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 hearts | amod |
| 3 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 How | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 How | cop |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 1 How | nsubj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 How | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | many hearts | how property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
3, because fish have no hearts
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
| 3 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 5 have | mark |
| 4 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 have | nsubj |
| 5 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 3 | conj |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 hearts | det |
| 7 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 have | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | fish | no hearts | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient |
Option 2
7, herons have two hearts each
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 7 | 7 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 herons | nummod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 7 | punct |
| 3 | herons | heron | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 have | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 hearts | nummod |
| 6 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 have | obj |
| 7 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 hearts | nmod:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | 7 herons | two hearts each | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
5, each animal has one heart
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 has | punct |
| 3 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 animal | det |
| 4 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 has | nsubj |
| 5 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 5 | conj |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 heart | nummod |
| 7 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 has | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | each animal | one heart | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient |
Option 4
10, as each one has two hearts
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 has | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 has | punct |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 has | mark |
| 4 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 one | det |
| 5 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 has | nsubj |
| 6 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 hearts | nummod |
| 8 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 has | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | 10 | two hearts | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient |
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