Test 10 · ★★ · Why zoos exist and what critics say
«4 elephants in the old zoo picture, how many trunks and how many tails altogether»
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗
This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 115 «Why zoos exist and what critics say» 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 | _ | 3 elephants | punct |
| 2 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 elephants | nummod |
| 3 | elephants | elephant | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 picture | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 picture | det |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 picture | amod |
| 7 | zoo | zoo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 picture | compound |
| 8 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 elephants | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 trunks | punct |
| 10 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 many | advmod |
| 11 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 trunks | amod |
| 12 | trunks | trunk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 picture | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 tails | cc |
| 14 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 many | advmod |
| 15 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 tails | amod |
| 16 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 elephants | conj |
| 17 | altogether | altogether | ADV | _ | 3 elephants | advmod |
| 18 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 3 elephants | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
4, the trunk is counted as a tail
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 | _ | 6 counted | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 trunk | det |
| 4 | trunk | trunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 counted | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 counted | aux:pass |
| 6 | counted | count | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 4 | parataxis |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 tail | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 tail | det |
| 9 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 counted | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | count | present · passive | the trunk | as a tail | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme as tail=Attribute |
Option 2
12, two trunks and one tail each
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 trunks | nummod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 trunks | punct |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 trunks | nummod |
| 4 | trunks | trunk | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 tail | cc |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 tail | nummod |
| 7 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 trunks | conj |
| 8 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 trunks | nmod:unmarked |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
8, four trunks and four tails
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 trunks | nummod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 trunks | punct |
| 3 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 trunks | nummod |
| 4 | trunks | trunk | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 tails | cc |
| 6 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 tails | nummod |
| 7 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 trunks | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
16, two trunks and two tails each
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 16 | 16 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 trunks | nummod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 trunks | punct |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 trunks | nummod |
| 4 | trunks | trunk | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 tails | cc |
| 6 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 tails | nummod |
| 7 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 trunks | conj |
| 8 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 trunks | nmod:unmarked |
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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