Test 10 · ★★★ · Zoos in Australia and around the world, and the year's myt…

«2 platypuses and 3 koalas at Healesville, how many tails, mate»

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗

This is test 10 · ★★★ of lesson 117 «Zoos in Australia and around the world, and the year's myths put right» 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 platypuses	punct
2	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 platypuses	nummod
3	platypuses	platypus	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 koalas	cc
5	3	3	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 koalas	nummod
6	koalas	koala	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 platypuses	conj
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 Healesville	case
8	Healesville	Healesville	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 koalas	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 tails	punct
10	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	11 many	advmod
11	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 tails	amod
12	tails	tail	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 platypuses	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 mate	punct
14	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 platypuses	conj
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 platypuses	punct

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

The options

Option 1

2, koalas have no tail at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 koalas	nummod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 2	punct
3	koalas	koala	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	nsubj
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 tail	det
6	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 have	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 have	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	2 koalas	no tail		all			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient

Option 2

10, two tails each for all five of them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 each	nummod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 each	punct
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 tails	nummod
4	tails	tail	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 each	nsubj
5	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	8 five	det
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 each	nmod
8	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 them	case
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 five	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

5, one tail each, though a koala's is tiny

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	5	5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 tail	nummod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 tail	punct
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 tail	nummod
4	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	4 tail	nmod:unmarked
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 tiny	punct
7	though	though	SCONJ	_	12 tiny	mark
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 koala	det
9	koala	koala	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tiny	nsubj
10	's	's	PART	_	9 koala	case
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 tiny	cop
12	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 tail	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	a koala					tiny property	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

3, platypuses have no tail, only flat feet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	3	3	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 platypuses	nummod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 3	punct
3	platypuses	platypus	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	nsubj
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 tail	det
6	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 have	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 feet	punct
8	only	only	ADV	_	10 feet	advmod
9	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 feet	amod
10	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 tail	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	3 platypuses	no tail and flat feet					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient

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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