Test 8 · Sumatra: the smallest tiger, the hairy rhino, the stinking…
«3 siamangs singing, wait no 4, how many throat sacs puffing»
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: 3 siamangs, many throat sacs · What happens: sing, wait, puff · To what, where: 4
This is test 8 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 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 6 wait | punct |
| 2 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 siamangs | nummod |
| 3 | siamangs | siamang | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 wait | nsubj |
| 4 | singing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 siamangs | acl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 siamangs | punct |
| 6 | wait | wait | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 8 4 | det |
| 8 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 wait | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sacs | punct |
| 10 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 many | advmod |
| 11 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 sacs | amod |
| 12 | throat | throat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sacs | compound |
| 13 | sacs | sac | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 puffing | nsubj |
| 14 | puffing | puff | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 wait | advcl |
| 15 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 6 wait | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express in a quote | gerund | 3 siamangs not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | wait in a quote | infinitive | 3 siamangs | no 4 | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | puff in a quote | gerund | many throat sacs | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source |
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 · ← Mova's choice
3
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ 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.
Option 3
1
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
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.
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/162-sumatra-tigers-hairy-rhinos-and-the-venomous-loris/t8/