Test 10 · ★★ · Echolocation in the sea and in people: dolphins, whales, s…
Count them: 3 dolphins and 2 orcas swim past. How many blowholes, and how many tails?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, 3 dolphins · What happens: count, swim · To what, where: them
This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 230 «Echolocation in the sea and in people: dolphins, whales, swiftlets and clicking humans» 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: 3 dolphins and 2 orcas swim past.
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 | _ | 5 dolphins | punct |
| 4 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 dolphins | nummod |
| 5 | dolphins | dolphin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 swim | nsubj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 orcas | cc |
| 7 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 orcas | nummod |
| 8 | orcas | orca | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 dolphins | conj |
| 9 | swim | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Count | parataxis |
| 10 | past | past | ADV | _ | 9 swim | advmod |
| 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 | swim | present | 3 dolphins and 2 orcas | past property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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 blowholes, and how many tails?
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 blowholes | amod |
| 3 | blowholes | blowhole | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 tails | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 tails | cc |
| 6 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 many | advmod |
| 7 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 tails | amod |
| 8 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 blowholes | conj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 blowholes | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
3 blowholes and 5 tails
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 blowholes | nummod |
| 2 | blowholes | blowhole | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 tails | cc |
| 4 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 tails | nummod |
| 5 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 blowholes | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
10 blowholes and 5 tails
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 blowholes | nummod |
| 2 | blowholes | blowhole | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 tails | cc |
| 4 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 tails | nummod |
| 5 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 blowholes | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
5 blowholes and 10 tails
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 blowholes | nummod |
| 2 | blowholes | blowhole | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 tails | cc |
| 4 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 tails | nummod |
| 5 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 blowholes | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
5 blowholes and 5 tails
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 blowholes | nummod |
| 2 | blowholes | blowhole | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 tails | cc |
| 4 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 tails | nummod |
| 5 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 blowholes | 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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