Test 4 · ★ · The Amazon canopy: howlers, harpy eagles, toucans, dart fr…
A troop of 4 spider monkeys hangs from a branch, each by its tail only. How many tails are holding on?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: troop, many tails · What happens: hang, hold on · To what, where: branch
This is test 4 · ★ 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 troop of 4 spider monkeys hangs from a branch, each by its tail only.
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 hangs | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 monkeys | case |
| 4 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 monkeys | nummod |
| 5 | spider | spider | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 monkeys | compound |
| 6 | monkeys | monkey | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 troop | nmod |
| 7 | hangs | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 branch | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 branch | det |
| 10 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hangs | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 tail | punct |
| 12 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 tail | det |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 tail | case |
| 14 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 tail | nmod:poss |
| 15 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hangs | conj |
| 16 | only | only | ADV | _ | 15 tail | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 hangs | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hang | present | a troop of 4 spider monkeys | a branch | 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 tails are holding on?
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 | 5 holding | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 holding | aux |
| 5 | holding | hold | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 holding | compound:prt |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 holding | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold on | present · progressive | many tails | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
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 2
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 3
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 4 · ✓ the right answer
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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