Test 9 · Breeding programmes for rare animals: studbooks and frozen…

«4 baby giant tortoises hatched, how many legs in total? mate says 8»

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: baby giant tortoises, mate · What happens: hatch, say · To what, where: many legs, 8 · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 of lesson 113 «Breeding programmes for rare animals: studbooks and frozen zoos» 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 hatched	punct
2	4	4	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 baby	nummod
3	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tortoises	compound
4	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tortoises	amod
5	tortoises	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hatched	nsubj
6	hatched	hatch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 says	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 legs	punct
8	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	9 many	advmod
9	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 legs	amod
10	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hatched	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 total	case
12	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 legs	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 hatched	punct
14	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 says	nsubj
15	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	8	8	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	15 says	obj
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	15 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hatch in a quote	past	baby giant tortoises	many legs in total					vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.patient V PP.product»: agent=Patient
2	say speech: ask in a quote	present	mate	8					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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

12, three legs each

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	12	12	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 legs	nummod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 legs	punct
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 legs	nummod
4	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	4 legs	nmod:unmarked

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

16, four legs each

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	16	16	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 legs	punct
3	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 legs	nummod
4	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 16	conj
5	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	1 16	nmod:unmarked

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

4, just one leg each

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	4	4	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 leg	punct
3	just	just	ADV	_	5 leg	advmod
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 leg	nummod
5	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 4	appos
6	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	5 leg	nmod:unmarked

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

8, two legs each, like birds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	8	8	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 legs	nummod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 legs	punct
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 legs	nummod
4	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	4 legs	nmod:unmarked
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 birds	punct
7	like	like	ADP	_	8 birds	case
8	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 legs	conj

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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