Test 10 · ★★ · Myths and cartoons put right: Tom and Jerry, elephants and…
Count them: a pack of 4 wolves howls on a hill. How many tails and how many ears?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, pack · What happens: count, howl · To what, where: them, hill
This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 191 «Myths and cartoons put right: Tom and Jerry, elephants and mice, ostriches and more» 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: Count them: a pack of 4 wolves howls on a hill.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Count | count | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Count | obj |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 howls | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 pack | det |
| 5 | pack | pack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 howls | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 wolves | case |
| 7 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 wolves | nummod |
| 8 | wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 pack | nmod |
| 9 | howls | howl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Count | parataxis |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 hill | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 hill | det |
| 12 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 howls | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Count | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | count | imperative | you not said here | them = they | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 2 | howl | present | a pack of 4 wolves | a hill | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on hill=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 tails and how many ears?
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 tails | amod |
| 3 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 ears | cc |
| 5 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 many | advmod |
| 6 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 ears | amod |
| 7 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 tails | conj |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 tails | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
4 tails and 4 ears
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 tails | nummod |
| 2 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 ears | cc |
| 4 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 ears | nummod |
| 5 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 tails | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
8 tails and 8 ears
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 tails | nummod |
| 2 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 ears | cc |
| 4 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 ears | nummod |
| 5 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 tails | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
4 tails and 16 ears
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 tails | nummod |
| 2 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 ears | cc |
| 4 | 16 | 16 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 ears | nummod |
| 5 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 tails | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
4 tails and 8 ears
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 tails | nummod |
| 2 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 ears | cc |
| 4 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 ears | nummod |
| 5 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 tails | conj |
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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