Test 4 · ★ · Myth check: do goldfish have a three-second memory?
Two goldfish and a cat are watching each other. How many tails altogether?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Two goldfish · What happens: watch · To what, where: each
This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 152 «Myth check: do goldfish have a three-second memory?» 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: Two goldfish and a cat are watching each other.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 goldfish | nummod |
| 2 | goldfish | goldfish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 watching | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 cat | cc |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 cat | det |
| 5 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 goldfish | conj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 watching | aux |
| 7 | watching | watch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 7 watching | obj |
| 9 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 each | fixed |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 watching | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | present · progressive | Two goldfish and a cat | each | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Theme |
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 tails altogether?
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 tails | amod |
| 3 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | altogether | altogether | ADV | _ | 3 tails | advmod |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 tails | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
2
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
3
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
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 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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