Test 2 · ★★ · Behind the scenes: the zoo vet and the animal hospital
A new monkey arrives and must stay in quarantine for 40 days. About how many weeks is that?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: new monkey, that · What happens: arrive, stay, be · To what, where: quarantine
This is test 2 · ★★ of lesson 110 «Behind the scenes: the zoo vet and the animal hospital» 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 new monkey arrives and must stay in quarantine for 40 days.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 monkey | det |
| 2 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 monkey | amod |
| 3 | monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 arrives | nsubj |
| 4 | arrives | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 stay | cc |
| 6 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 stay | aux |
| 7 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 arrives | conj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 quarantine | case |
| 9 | quarantine | quarantine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stay | obl |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 days | case |
| 11 | 40 | 40 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 days | nummod |
| 12 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 stay | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 arrives | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | present | a new monkey | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | stay | must | a new monkey not said here | quarantine | day | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in quarantine=Location |
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: About how many weeks is that?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADP | _ | 4 weeks | case |
| 2 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 many | advmod |
| 3 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 weeks | amod |
| 4 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 is | obl |
| 5 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 is | nsubj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 is | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | that | week | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Nearly 6 weeks
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 2 6 | advmod |
| 2 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 weeks | nummod |
| 3 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Exactly 4 weeks
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 2 4 | advmod |
| 2 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 weeks | nummod |
| 3 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
About 2 weeks or so
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 2 | advmod |
| 2 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 weeks | nummod |
| 3 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 so | cc |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 3 weeks | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
About 10 whole weeks
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 10 | advmod |
| 2 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 weeks | nummod |
| 3 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 weeks | amod |
| 4 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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