Test 11 · Sumatra: the smallest tiger, the hairy rhino, the stinking…

If all the Sumatran rhinos alive met in one place, about how many would there be?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Sumatran rhinos · What happens: meet, be · To what, where: one place, many

This is test 11 of lesson 162 «Sumatra: the smallest tiger, the hairy rhino, the stinking giant flower and the venomous loris» 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	If	if	SCONJ	_	7 met	mark
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 rhinos	det:predet
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 rhinos	det
4	Sumatran	Sumatran	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 rhinos	compound
5	rhinos	rhino	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 met	nsubj
6	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 rhinos	amod
7	met	meet	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 place	case
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 place	nummod
10	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 met	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 be	punct
12	about	about	SCONJ	_	17 be	mark
13	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	14 many	advmod
14	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 be	obj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 be	aux
16	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 be	advmod
17	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 met	conj
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 met	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	meet	participle	all Sumatran rhinos			one place			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	be	would	all Sumatran rhinos not said here	many		there			vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot many=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.

The options

Option 1

About ten thousand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	About	about	ADV	_	3 thousand	advmod
2	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 thousand	compound
3	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

About a million or more

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	About	about	ADV	_	3 million	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 million	det
3	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	5 more	cc
5	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 million	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Exactly one, kept in a zoo

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Exactly	exactly	ADV	_	2 one	advmod
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 kept	nsubj:pass
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 kept	punct
4	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 zoo	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 zoo	det
7	zoo	zoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kept	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	participle · passive		one		a zoo			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in zoo=Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Fewer than fifty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fewer	few	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 fifty	advmod
2	than	than	ADP	_	1 Fewer	fixed
3	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word 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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