Test 11 · ★★ · How a dog thinks: a world of smells, sounds and faces
Count them: a dog's dream makes all four paws twitch three times each. How many twitches is that?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, dream, four paws, dog, many twitches · What happens: count, make, twitch, dream, be · To what, where: them
This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 193 «How a dog thinks: a world of smells, sounds and faces» 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 dog's dream makes all four paws twitch three times each.
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 | _ | 8 makes | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 dog | det |
| 5 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dream | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 dog | case |
| 7 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 makes | nsubj |
| 8 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Count | parataxis |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 paws | det |
| 10 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 paws | nummod |
| 11 | paws | paw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 twitch | nsubj |
| 12 | twitch | twitch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 makes | ccomp |
| 13 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 times | nummod |
| 14 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 twitch | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 times | nmod:unmarked |
| 16 | . | . | 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 | make | present | a dog's dream | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | twitch | present | all four paws | time | vn body_internal_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | dream | a dog | nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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 twitches is that?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 twitches | amod |
| 3 | twitches | twitch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 How | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 How | cop |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 1 How | nsubj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 How | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | many twitches | how property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
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 2 · ✓ the right answer
12
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
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 4
7
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 7 | 7 | 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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