Test 2 · Elephants: the trunk and everything it does

Count them: how many trunks, ears and legs does one elephant have altogether?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, many trunks · What happens: count, have · To what, where: them

This is test 2 of lesson 21 «Elephants: the trunk and everything it does» 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	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 trunks	punct
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 many	advmod
5	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 trunks	amod
6	trunks	trunk	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 have	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 ears	punct
8	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 trunks	conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 legs	cc
10	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 trunks	conj
11	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 have	aux
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 elephant	nummod
13	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 have	nsubj
14	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Count	parataxis
15	altogether	altogether	ADV	_	14 have	advmod
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	have	present · do-support	many trunks and ears and legs					altogether property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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.

The options

Option 1

5: one trunk, two ears and two legs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	5	5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 trunk	punct
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 trunk	nummod
4	trunk	trunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 5	appos
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 ears	punct
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 ears	nummod
7	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 trunk	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 legs	cc
9	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 legs	nummod
10	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 ears	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

6: one trunk, one ear and four legs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	6	6	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 trunk	punct
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 trunk	nummod
4	trunk	trunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 6	appos
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 ear	punct
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 ear	nummod
7	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 trunk	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 legs	cc
9	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 legs	nummod
10	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 trunk	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

8: two trunks, two ears and four legs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	8	8	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 trunks	nummod
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 trunks	punct
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 trunks	nummod
4	trunks	trunk	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 ears	punct
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 ears	nummod
7	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 trunks	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 legs	cc
9	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 legs	nummod
10	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 trunks	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

7: one trunk, two ears and four legs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	7	7	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 trunk	punct
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 trunk	nummod
4	trunk	trunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 7	appos
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 ears	punct
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 ears	nummod
7	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 trunk	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 legs	cc
9	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 legs	nummod
10	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 ears	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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