Test 2 · Pigeons: head bobbing, homing and city cliffs
Count them: 6 pigeons stand on a ledge. How many legs and how many wings?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, 6 pigeons · What happens: count, stand · To what, where: them, ledge
This is test 2 of lesson 221 «Pigeons: head bobbing, homing and city cliffs» 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: 6 pigeons stand on a ledge.
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 stand | punct |
| 4 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 pigeons | nummod |
| 5 | pigeons | pigeon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 stand | nsubj |
| 6 | stand | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Count | advcl |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 ledge | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 ledge | det |
| 9 | ledge | ledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stand | obl |
| 10 | . | . | 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 | 6 pigeons | a ledge | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on ledge=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 and how many wings?
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 | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 wings | cc |
| 5 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 many | advmod |
| 6 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 wings | amod |
| 7 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 legs | conj |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 legs | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
12 legs and 6 wings
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 legs | nummod |
| 2 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 wings | cc |
| 4 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 wings | nummod |
| 5 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 legs | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
24 legs and 12 wings
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 24 | 24 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 legs | nummod |
| 2 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 wings | cc |
| 4 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 wings | nummod |
| 5 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 legs | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
12 legs and 12 wings
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 legs | nummod |
| 2 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 wings | cc |
| 4 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 wings | nummod |
| 5 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 legs | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
6 legs and 12 wings
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 legs | nummod |
| 2 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 wings | cc |
| 4 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 wings | nummod |
| 5 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 legs | 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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