Test 8 · ★★ · Animal minds: the octopus, escape artist and puzzle solver
Count them: 2 octopuses and 1 squid swim past. How many hearts?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, 2 octopuses · What happens: count, swim · To what, where: them
This is test 8 · ★★ of lesson 234 «Animal minds: the octopus, escape artist and puzzle solver» 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: 2 octopuses and 1 squid 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 octopuses | punct |
| 4 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 octopuses | nummod |
| 5 | octopuses | octopus | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 swim | nsubj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 squid | cc |
| 7 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 squid | nummod |
| 8 | squid | squid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 octopuses | 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 | 2 octopuses and 1 squid | 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 hearts?
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 hearts | amod |
| 3 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 hearts | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
9 hearts
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 9 | 9 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 hearts | nummod |
| 2 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
11 hearts
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 11 | 11 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 hearts | nummod |
| 2 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
3 hearts
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 hearts | nummod |
| 2 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
6 hearts
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 hearts | nummod |
| 2 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 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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