Test 6 · ★ · Gulls: chip thieves, rain dances and salty water
Count them: 5 gulls stand on a lamppost and 3 more land. How many legs now?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, 5 gulls · What happens: count, stand · To what, where: them, lamppost
This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 223 «Gulls: chip thieves, rain dances and salty water» 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: 5 gulls stand on a lamppost and 3 more land.
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 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 gulls | nummod |
| 5 | gulls | gull | 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 lamppost | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 lamppost | det |
| 9 | lamppost | lamppost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stand | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 land | cc |
| 11 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 more | nummod |
| 12 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 land | amod |
| 13 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lamppost | conj |
| 14 | . | . | 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 | 5 gulls | a lamppost and more land | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on lamppost=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 now?
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 | root | root |
| 3 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 many | nsubj |
| 4 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 many | advmod |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 many | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
8
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
32
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 32 | 32 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
16
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 16 | 16 | 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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