Test 5 · The lion: why people call it «king of the beasts»; prides…
Ella's little brother says 4 lions have 32 ears between them. How many really?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: little brother, 4 lions · What happens: say, have · To what, where: 32 ears · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 5 of lesson 18 «The lion: why people call it «king of the beasts»; prides and roars» 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: Ella's little brother says 4 lions have 32 ears between them.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ella | Ella | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 brother | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Ella | case |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 brother | amod |
| 4 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 says | nsubj |
| 5 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 lions | nummod |
| 7 | lions | lion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 have | nsubj |
| 8 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 says | ccomp |
| 9 | 32 | 32 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 ears | nummod |
| 10 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 have | obj |
| 11 | between | between | ADP | _ | 12 them | case |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 ears | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Ella's little brother | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | have | present | 4 lions | 32 ears | between ears = ear | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Patient |
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 really?
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 | root | root |
| 3 | really | really | ADV | _ | 2 many | advmod |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 many | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
16, four each
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 16 | 16 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 four | punct |
| 3 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 1 16 | conj |
| 4 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 1 16 | nmod:unmarked |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
4, one each
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 one | punct |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 1 4 | nmod |
| 4 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 one | nmod:unmarked |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
32, eight each
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 32 | 32 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 eight | punct |
| 3 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 1 32 | nmod |
| 4 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 eight | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
8, two each
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 two | punct |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 1 8 | conj |
| 4 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 1 8 | advmod |
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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