Test 2 · ★ · Kindness to wild animals
Count them: 4 children each catch 2 frogs and put them in jars. How many frogs need to go back to the pond?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, 4 children, many frogs · What happens: count, catch, put, need, go back · To what, where: them, 2 frogs, frogs, jars
This is test 2 · ★ 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: 4 children each catch 2 frogs and put them in jars.
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 catch | punct |
| 4 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 children | nummod |
| 5 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 catch | nsubj |
| 6 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 catch | advmod |
| 7 | catch | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Count | parataxis |
| 8 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 frogs | nummod |
| 9 | frogs | frog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 catch | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 put | cc |
| 11 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 catch | conj |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 put | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 jars | case |
| 14 | jars | jar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 put | obl |
| 15 | . | . | 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 | catch | present | 4 children | 2 frogs | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent frog=Theme | ||||
| 3 | put | infinitive | 4 children not said here | frogs = frog | jars | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in jar=Destination |
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 frogs need to go back to the pond?
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 frogs | amod |
| 3 | frogs | frog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 need | nsubj |
| 4 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 go | mark |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 need | xcomp |
| 7 | back | back | ADV | _ | 6 go | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 pond | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 pond | det |
| 10 | pond | pond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 go | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 need | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need | present | many frogs | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | go back not said to happen | to-infinitive | many frogs not said here | to the pond result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to pond=Result |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
2
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
4
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
6
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
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.
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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