Test 11 · ★ · Monkeys: kinds, tails and troops
A troop of 8 snow monkeys sits in the hot spring. How many ears are poking out?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: troop, many ears · What happens: sit, poke out
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 15 «Monkeys: kinds, tails and troops» 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: A troop of 8 snow monkeys sits in the hot spring.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 troop | det |
| 2 | troop | troop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sits | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 monkeys | case |
| 4 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 monkeys | nummod |
| 5 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 monkeys | compound |
| 6 | monkeys | monkey | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 troop | nmod |
| 7 | sits | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 spring | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 spring | det |
| 10 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 spring | amod |
| 11 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sits | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 sits | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | present | a troop of 8 snow monkeys | spring | vn assuming_position-50 «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.
Sentence 2: How many ears are poking out?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 many | advmod |
| 2 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 ears | amod |
| 3 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 poking | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 poking | aux |
| 5 | poking | poke | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 poking | compound:prt |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 poking | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | poke out | present · progressive | many ears | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
32
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 32 | 32 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
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 3
24
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 24 | 24 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
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.
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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