Test 7 · ★★ · Myth check: are elephants scared of mice?
«4 elephant families, 2 babies each, babies hide under mums, how many babies hiding»
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: babies, many babies · What happens: hide · To what, where: 4 elephant families
This is test 7 · ★★ of lesson 149 «Myth check: are elephants scared of 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 11 hide | punct |
| 2 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 families | nummod |
| 3 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 families | compound |
| 4 | families | family | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 hide | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 babies | punct |
| 6 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 babies | nummod |
| 7 | babies | baby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 families | appos |
| 8 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 babies | appos |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 hide | punct |
| 10 | babies | baby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 hide | nsubj |
| 11 | hide | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | under | under | ADP | _ | 13 mums | case |
| 13 | mums | mum | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 hide | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 babies | punct |
| 15 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 many | advmod |
| 16 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 babies | amod |
| 17 | babies | baby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 mums | conj |
| 18 | hiding | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 babies | acl |
| 19 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 11 hide | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide in a quote | present | babies | 4 elephant families | under mums and many babies | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under mum=Location | |||
| 2 | hide in a quote | gerund | many babies not said here | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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
6
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
8
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
16
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 16 | 16 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
4
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4 | 4 | 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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