Test 5 · ★ · Tom and Jerry: do real cats really chase mice?
In Tom and Jerry, Jerry is almost as big as Tom's paw. About how many times heavier is a real cat than a mouse?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Jerry · What happens: be · To what, where: Tom, heavier real cat
This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 118 «Tom and Jerry: do real cats really chase mice?» 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
Sentence 1: In Tom and Jerry, Jerry is almost as big as Tom's paw.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 Tom | case |
| 2 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 big | obl |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 Jerry | cc |
| 4 | Jerry | Jerry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Tom | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Tom | punct |
| 6 | Jerry | Jerry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 big | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 big | cop |
| 8 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 10 big | advmod |
| 9 | as | as | ADV | _ | 10 big | advmod |
| 10 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 paw | case |
| 12 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 paw | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 Tom | case |
| 14 | paw | paw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 big | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 big | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Jerry | Tom and Jerry | as Tom's paw; almost, big property | 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.
Sentence 2: About how many times heavier is a real cat than a mouse?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADP | _ | 4 times | case |
| 2 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 many | advmod |
| 3 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 times | amod |
| 4 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 heavier | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | heavier | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 cat | amod |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 cat | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 cat | det |
| 8 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 cat | amod |
| 9 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | than | than | ADP | _ | 12 mouse | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 mouse | det |
| 12 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cat | nmod |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 cat | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a heavier real cat | than a mouse | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
About 20,000 times
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 20,000 | advmod |
| 2 | 20,000 | 20000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 times | nummod |
| 3 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
About the same
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 3 same | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 same | det |
| 3 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
About 2 times
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 2 | advmod |
| 2 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 times | nummod |
| 3 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
About 200 times
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 200 | advmod |
| 2 | 200 | 200 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 times | nummod |
| 3 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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