Test 3 · ★ · The Amazon canopy: howlers, harpy eagles, toucans, dart fr…
A spider monkey hangs by its tail and picks fruit with both hands. How many hands and tails is it using?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: spider monkey, many hands · What happens: hang, use
This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 156 «The Amazon canopy: howlers, harpy eagles, toucans, dart frogs and sloth gardens» 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 spider monkey hangs by its tail and picks fruit with both hands.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 monkey | det |
| 2 | spider | spider | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 monkey | compound |
| 3 | monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hangs | nsubj |
| 4 | hangs | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 tail | case |
| 6 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 tail | nmod:poss |
| 7 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hangs | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 fruit | cc |
| 9 | picks | pick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 fruit | compound |
| 10 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tail | conj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 hands | case |
| 12 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 hands | det |
| 13 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 hangs | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hangs | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hang | present | a spider monkey | by monkey's tail and picks fruit; with both hands | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by tail=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 hands and tails is it using?
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 hands | amod |
| 3 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 using | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 tails | cc |
| 5 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 hands | conj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 using | aux |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 using | nsubj |
| 8 | using | use | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 using | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | present · progressive | many hands and tails | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
1 hand and 2 tails
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 hand | nummod |
| 2 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 tails | cc |
| 4 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 tails | nummod |
| 5 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 hand | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
4 hands and 1 tail
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 hands | nummod |
| 2 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 tail | cc |
| 4 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 tail | nummod |
| 5 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hands | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
2 hands and no tail
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 hands | nummod |
| 2 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 tail | cc |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 tail | det |
| 5 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hands | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
2 hands and 1 tail
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 hands | nummod |
| 2 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 tail | cc |
| 4 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 tail | nummod |
| 5 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hands | conj |
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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