Test 7 · ★★ · Animal minds: dolphins' names, orca grandmothers and whale…
Count them: a pod of 7 dolphins swims by, and each one has one blowhole and two flippers. How many flippers?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, pod, one · What happens: count, swim, have · To what, where: them, one blowhole
This is test 7 · ★★ of lesson 235 «Animal minds: dolphins' names, orca grandmothers and whale songs» 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 pod of 7 dolphins swims by, and each one has one blowhole and two flippers.
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 swims | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 pod | det |
| 5 | pod | pod | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 swims | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 dolphins | case |
| 7 | 7 | 7 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 dolphins | nummod |
| 8 | dolphins | dolphin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 pod | nmod |
| 9 | swims | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Count | parataxis |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 swims | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 has | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 has | cc |
| 13 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 one | det |
| 14 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 has | nsubj |
| 15 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 swims | conj |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 blowhole | nummod |
| 17 | blowhole | blowhole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 has | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 flippers | cc |
| 19 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 flippers | nummod |
| 20 | flippers | flipper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 blowhole | conj |
| 21 | . | . | 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 | a pod of 7 dolphins | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | have | present | each one | one blowhole and two flippers | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blowhole=Patient |
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 flippers?
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 flippers | amod |
| 3 | flippers | flipper | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 flippers | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
21 flippers
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 21 | 21 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 flippers | nummod |
| 2 | flippers | flipper | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
28 flippers
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 28 | 28 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 flippers | nummod |
| 2 | flippers | flipper | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
7 flippers
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 7 | 7 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 flippers | nummod |
| 2 | flippers | flipper | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
14 flippers
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 14 | 14 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 flippers | nummod |
| 2 | flippers | flipper | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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