Test 9 · ★ · Cat body language and cat myths: milk, nine lives and land…
Count them: four cats walk in with tails up. How many tails, and how many happy hellos?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, four cats · What happens: count, walk in · To what, where: them
This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 199 «Cat body language and cat myths: milk, nine lives and landing on their feet» 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: four cats walk in with tails up.
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 | _ | 6 walk | punct |
| 4 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 cats | nummod |
| 5 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 walk | nsubj |
| 6 | walk | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Count | parataxis |
| 7 | in | in | ADV | _ | 6 walk | advmod |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 tails | case |
| 9 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 walk | obl |
| 10 | up | up | ADV | _ | 6 walk | advmod |
| 11 | . | . | 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 | walk in | present | four cats | with tails | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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.
Sentence 2: How many tails, and how many happy hellos?
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 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 hellos | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 hellos | cc |
| 6 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 many | advmod |
| 7 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 hellos | amod |
| 8 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 hellos | amod |
| 9 | hellos | hello | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 tails | conj |
| 10 | ? | ? | 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 16 hellos
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 hellos | cc |
| 4 | 16 | 16 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 hellos | nummod |
| 5 | hellos | hello | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 tails | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
8 tails and 4 hellos
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 hellos | cc |
| 4 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 hellos | nummod |
| 5 | hellos | hello | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 tails | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
4 tails and 8 hellos
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 hellos | cc |
| 4 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 hellos | nummod |
| 5 | hellos | hello | 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 4 hellos
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 hellos | cc |
| 4 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 hellos | nummod |
| 5 | hellos | hello | 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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