Test 6 · ★★ · Record-breakers: the fastest and the slowest
«a hummingbird's got 2 wings, there are 4 at the feeder, how many wings beating»
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: many wings · What happens: get, be, beat · To what, where: 2 wings, feeder · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 6 · ★★ of lesson 185 «Record-breakers: the fastest and the slowest» 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 | _ | 5 got | punct |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 hummingbird | det |
| 3 | hummingbird | hummingbird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 got | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 hummingbird | case |
| 5 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 feeder | csubj |
| 6 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 wings | nummod |
| 7 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 got | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 are | punct |
| 9 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 10 are | expl |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 feeder | cop |
| 11 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 are | nsubj |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 feeder | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 feeder | det |
| 14 | feeder | feeder | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 wings | punct |
| 16 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 many | advmod |
| 17 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 wings | amod |
| 18 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 feeder | nmod |
| 19 | beating | beat | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 wings | acl |
| 20 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 19 beating | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get in a quote | participle | 2 wings | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wing=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | the feeder | many wings nmod | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | beat in a quote | gerund | many wings not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=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 · ← 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
6
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
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 4 · ✓ the right answer
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.
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