Test 8 · ★★ · Animal minds: elephants' memory, feelings and the mouse myth
Count them: a mother elephant and her 2 calves walk by. How many legs and how many trunks?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, mother elephant · What happens: count, walk · To what, where: them
This is test 8 · ★★ of lesson 236 «Animal minds: elephants' memory, feelings and the mouse myth» 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 mother elephant and her 2 calves walk by.
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 | _ | 6 elephant | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 elephant | det |
| 5 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 elephant | compound |
| 6 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 walk | nsubj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 calves | cc |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 calves | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 calves | nummod |
| 10 | calves | calf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 elephant | conj |
| 11 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Count | parataxis |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 walk | obl |
| 13 | . | . | 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 | walk | infinitive | a mother elephant and her 2 calves | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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 legs and how many trunks?
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 | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 trunks | cc |
| 5 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 many | advmod |
| 6 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 trunks | amod |
| 7 | trunks | trunk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 legs | conj |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 legs | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
8 legs and 3 trunks
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 legs | nummod |
| 2 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 trunks | cc |
| 4 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 trunks | nummod |
| 5 | trunks | trunk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 legs | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
12 legs and 1 trunk
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 legs | nummod |
| 2 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 trunk | cc |
| 4 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 trunk | nummod |
| 5 | trunk | trunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 legs | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
12 legs and 3 trunks
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 legs | nummod |
| 2 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 trunks | cc |
| 4 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 trunks | nummod |
| 5 | trunks | trunk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 legs | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
16 legs and 3 trunks
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 16 | 16 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 legs | nummod |
| 2 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 trunks | cc |
| 4 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 trunks | nummod |
| 5 | trunks | trunk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 legs | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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