Test 4 · ★ · Worms, snails and slugs
Count them: 4 garden snails crawl up a wall. How many eye-tentacles and how many feet altogether?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, 4 garden snails · What happens: count, crawl up · To what, where: them, wall
This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 217 «Worms, snails and slugs» 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: 4 garden snails crawl up a wall.
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 | _ | 7 crawl | punct |
| 4 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 snails | nummod |
| 5 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 snails | compound |
| 6 | snails | snail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 crawl | nsubj |
| 7 | crawl | crawl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Count | parataxis |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 crawl | compound:prt |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 wall | det |
| 10 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 crawl | obj |
| 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 | crawl up | present | 4 garden snails | a wall | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location wall=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 eye-tentacles and how many feet altogether?
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 | 5 tentacles | amod |
| 3 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tentacles | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 eye | punct |
| 5 | tentacles | tentacle | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 feet | cc |
| 7 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 many | advmod |
| 8 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 feet | amod |
| 9 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 tentacles | conj |
| 10 | altogether | altogether | ADV | _ | 5 tentacles | advmod |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 tentacles | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
4 eye-tentacles and 4 feet
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 tentacles | nummod |
| 2 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tentacles | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 eye | punct |
| 4 | tentacles | tentacle | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 feet | cc |
| 6 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 feet | nummod |
| 7 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 tentacles | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
8 eye-tentacles and 16 feet
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 tentacles | nummod |
| 2 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tentacles | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 eye | punct |
| 4 | tentacles | tentacle | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 feet | cc |
| 6 | 16 | 16 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 feet | nummod |
| 7 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 tentacles | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
8 eye-tentacles and 4 feet
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 tentacles | nummod |
| 2 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tentacles | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 eye | punct |
| 4 | tentacles | tentacle | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 feet | cc |
| 6 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 feet | nummod |
| 7 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 tentacles | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
16 eye-tentacles and 8 feet
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 16 | 16 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 tentacles | nummod |
| 2 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tentacles | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 eye | punct |
| 4 | tentacles | tentacle | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 feet | cc |
| 6 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 feet | nummod |
| 7 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 tentacles | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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