Test 11 · ★ · Kindness to wild animals
Count them: a summer water dish is visited by 3 blackbirds and 2 hedgehogs. How many legs came to drink?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, 3 blackbirds, many legs · What happens: count, visit, come, drink · To what, where: them, water dish
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 226 «Kindness to wild animals» 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 summer water dish is visited by 3 blackbirds and 2 hedgehogs.
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 | _ | 9 visited | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 dish | det |
| 5 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 water | compound |
| 6 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dish | compound |
| 7 | dish | dish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 visited | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 visited | aux:pass |
| 9 | visited | visit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Count | parataxis |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 blackbirds | case |
| 11 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 blackbirds | nummod |
| 12 | blackbirds | blackbird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 visited | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 hedgehogs | cc |
| 14 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 hedgehogs | nummod |
| 15 | hedgehogs | hedgehog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 blackbirds | conj |
| 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 | visit | present · passive | 3 blackbirds and 2 hedgehogs | a water dish | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Co-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.
Sentence 2: How many legs came to drink?
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 | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 drink | mark |
| 6 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 came | xcomp |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | many legs | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | drink | to-infinitive | many legs not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
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 2
20
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
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.
Option 4 · ✓ 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.
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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