Test 3 · Timon and Pumbaa: real meerkats and warthogs
«5 meerkats on lookout standing up, how many back legs on the ground» How many?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: 5 meerkats · What happens: stand up · To what, where: many back legs
This is test 3 of lesson 125 «Timon and Pumbaa: real meerkats and warthogs» 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 | _ | 6 standing | punct |
| 2 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 meerkats | nummod |
| 3 | meerkats | meerkat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 standing | nsubj |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 lookout | case |
| 5 | lookout | lookout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 meerkats | nmod |
| 6 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 standing | compound:prt |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 legs | punct |
| 9 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 many | advmod |
| 10 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 legs | amod |
| 11 | back | back | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 legs | amod |
| 12 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 standing | obl |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 ground | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 ground | det |
| 15 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 legs | nmod |
| 16 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 6 standing | punct |
| 17 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 many | advmod |
| 18 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 standing | obj |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 standing | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand up in a quote | gerund | 5 meerkats on lookout | many back legs on the ground | 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.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
15
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 15 | 15 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
5
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
20
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
10
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
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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