Test 5 · ★★ · Amazon giants and tall tales: anacondas, caimans, electric…
A capybara family of 5 grazes while one caiman lies on the same bank. How many legs on the bank altogether?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: capybara family · What happens: lie · To what, where: same bank
This is test 5 · ★★ of lesson 158 «Amazon giants and tall tales: anacondas, caimans, electric eels and the candiru» 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 capybara family of 5 grazes while one caiman lies on the same bank.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 family | det |
| 2 | capybara | capybara | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 family | compound |
| 3 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lies | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 grazes | case |
| 5 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 grazes | nummod |
| 6 | grazes | graze | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 family | nmod |
| 7 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 9 caiman | mark |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 caiman | nummod |
| 9 | caiman | caiman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 grazes | acl |
| 10 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 bank | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 bank | det |
| 13 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 bank | amod |
| 14 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lies | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 lies | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | present | a capybara family of 5 grazes | the same 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 on the bank 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 | 7 altogether | nsubj |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 bank | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bank | det |
| 6 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 legs | nmod |
| 7 | altogether | altogether | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 altogether | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
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.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
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 3
20
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
22
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 22 | 22 | 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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