Test 11 · ★★ · Why zoos exist and what critics say

«Madagascar zoo had a lion, a zebra, a hippo and a giraffe, how many legs is that, no, add the 4 penguins»

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Madagascar zoo · What happens: have, be, add · To what, where: lion, that, 4 penguins

This is test 11 · ★★ 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	_	4 had	punct
2	Madagascar	Madagascar	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 zoo	compound
3	zoo	zoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 lion	det
6	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 zebra	punct
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 zebra	det
9	zebra	zebra	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lion	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 hippo	punct
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 hippo	det
12	hippo	hippo	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lion	conj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 giraffe	cc
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 giraffe	det
15	giraffe	giraffe	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lion	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 legs	punct
17	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	18 many	advmod
18	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 legs	amod
19	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 lion	conj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 that	cop
21	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 had	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 add	punct
23	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	25 add	discourse
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 no	punct
25	add	add	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 had	parataxis
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 penguins	det
27	4	4	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	28 penguins	nummod
28	penguins	penguin	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 add	obj
29	»	»	PUNCT	_	25 add	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	have in a quote	past	Madagascar zoo	a lion and a zebra and a hippo and a giraffe and many legs	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lion=Patient
2	is a in a quote	present		that	tree rules
3	add speech: assert in a quote	infinitive		the 4 penguins	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent penguin=Patient

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

16, four legs for each of the mammals

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	nmod
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 each	case
6	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	4 legs	nmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 mammals	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 mammals	det
9	mammals	mammal	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 each	nmod

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

Option 2

20, four for each mammal and one for each penguin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	20	20	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 four	punct
3	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 20	conj
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 mammal	case
5	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	6 mammal	det
6	mammal	mammal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 four	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 one	cc
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 20	conj
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 penguin	case
10	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	11 penguin	det
11	penguin	penguin	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 one	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

24, sixteen for the four mammals and eight for the penguins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	24	24	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 sixteen	punct
3	sixteen	sixteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 24	conj
4	for	for	ADP	_	7 mammals	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 mammals	det
6	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 mammals	nummod
7	mammals	mammal	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sixteen	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 eight	cc
9	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 mammals	conj
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 penguins	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 penguins	det
12	penguins	penguin	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 mammals	nmod

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

Option 4

32, four legs for every animal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	32	32	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 legs	nummod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 legs	punct
3	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 legs	nummod
4	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 animal	case
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 animal	det
7	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 legs	nmod

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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