Test 9 · ★★ · Animal minds: elephants' memory, feelings and the mouse myth
Count them: 4 elephants and 3 people stand by a water hole. How many ears?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, 4 elephants · What happens: count, stand · To what, where: them
This is test 9 · ★★ 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: 4 elephants and 3 people stand by a water hole.
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 elephants | punct |
| 4 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 elephants | nummod |
| 5 | elephants | elephant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 stand | nsubj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 people | cc |
| 7 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 people | nummod |
| 8 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 elephants | conj |
| 9 | stand | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Count | parataxis |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 hole | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 hole | det |
| 12 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hole | compound |
| 13 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stand | obl |
| 14 | . | . | 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 | stand | present | 4 elephants and 3 people | by a water hole | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by hole=Location |
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 ears?
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 ears | amod |
| 3 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 ears | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
8 ears
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 ears | nummod |
| 2 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
7 ears
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 7 | 7 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 ears | nummod |
| 2 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
16 ears
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 16 | 16 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 ears | nummod |
| 2 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
14 ears
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 14 | 14 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 ears | nummod |
| 2 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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