Test 11 · ★★ · Goldfish and pond fish: the three-second memory myth
Count them: a heron stands on one leg next to the pond with 3 frogs. How many legs in total, the lifted leg too?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, heron · What happens: count, stand, lift · To what, where: them, one leg
This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 204 «Goldfish and pond fish: the three-second memory myth» 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 heron stands on one leg next to the pond with 3 frogs.
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 stands | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 heron | det |
| 5 | heron | heron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stands | nsubj |
| 6 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Count | parataxis |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 leg | case |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 leg | nummod |
| 9 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stands | obl |
| 10 | next | next | ADV | _ | 13 pond | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 pond | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 pond | det |
| 13 | pond | pond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stands | obl |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 frogs | case |
| 15 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 frogs | nummod |
| 16 | frogs | frog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 pond | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | 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 | stand | present | a heron | one leg | to the pond with 3 frogs | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on leg=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 legs in total, the lifted leg too?
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 legs | amod |
| 3 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 total | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 total | case |
| 5 | total | total | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 leg | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 leg | det |
| 8 | lifted | lift | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 leg | amod |
| 9 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 total | appos |
| 10 | too | too | ADV | _ | 9 leg | advmod |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 total | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lift | participle | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
14
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 14 | 14 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
13
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 13 | 13 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
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 4
10
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 10 | 10 | 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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