Test 9 · ★★★ · Zoos in Australia and around the world, and the year's myt…

«Taronga had 6 giraffes but, wait, one's a baby born yesterday so 7. how many legs»

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Taronga, one, baby · What happens: have, wait, be, bear · To what, where: 6 giraffes, many legs, baby, 7

This is test 9 · ★★★ 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 had	punct
2	Taronga	Taronga	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	6	6	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 giraffes	nummod
5	giraffes	giraffe	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 had	obj
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 wait	cc
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 wait	punct
8	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 had	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 baby	punct
10	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 baby	nsubj
11	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 baby	cop
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 baby	det
13	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wait	obl
14	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 baby	acl
15	yesterday	yesterday	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 born	obl:unmarked
16	so	so	ADV	_	17 7	advmod
17	7	7	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	14 born	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 baby	punct
19	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	20 many	advmod
20	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 legs	amod
21	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 wait	obj
22	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	have in a quote	past	Taronga	6 giraffes		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent giraffe=Patient
2	wait in a quote	infinitive	Taronga not said here	many legs		tree rules
3	is a in a quote	present	one	a baby		tree rules
4	bear in a quote	participle	a baby not said here	7	yesterday	vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer

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

14, two legs each for 7 giraffes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	14	14	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 legs	nummod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 two	punct
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 14	conj
4	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 each	nsubj
5	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 giraffes	case
7	7	7	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 giraffes	nummod
8	giraffes	giraffe	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 each	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

28, four legs each for 7 giraffes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	28	28	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 legs	nummod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 four	punct
3	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 28	conj
4	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 each	nsubj
5	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 giraffes	case
7	7	7	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 giraffes	nummod
8	giraffes	giraffe	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 each	nmod

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

Option 3

24, four legs each for 6 giraffes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	24	24	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	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	4 legs	appos
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 giraffes	case
7	6	6	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 giraffes	nummod
8	giraffes	giraffe	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 each	nmod

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

Option 4

21, three legs each

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	21	21	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 legs	punct
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 legs	nummod
4	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 21	parataxis
5	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	1 21	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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