Test 3 · The Amazon river: pink dolphins, flooded forest, giant fis…
A family of 6 giant otters, sorry, 7, stands on the bank. How many legs altogether?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: family · What happens: stand · To what, where: bank
This is test 3 of lesson 155 «The Amazon river: pink dolphins, flooded forest, giant fish and piranhas» 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 family of 6 giant otters, sorry, 7, stands on the bank.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 family | det |
| 2 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stands | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 otters | case |
| 4 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 otters | nummod |
| 5 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 otters | amod |
| 6 | otters | otter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 family | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 sorry | punct |
| 8 | sorry | sorry | INTJ | _ | 10 7 | discourse |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 sorry | punct |
| 10 | 7 | 7 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 otters | appos |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 family | punct |
| 12 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 bank | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 bank | det |
| 15 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stands | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 stands | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | present | a family of 6 giant otters | the bank | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bank=Location |
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 legs 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 legs | amod |
| 3 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 altogether | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | altogether | altogether | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 altogether | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
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 2
35
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 35 | 35 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
14
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 14 | 14 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
28
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 28 | 28 | 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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