Test 10 · ★★ · Animal minds: what dogs and cats feel and understand (and…
Count them: Tom the cat, Spike the bulldog and Jerry the mouse in a real kitchen. How many ears and how many tails?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: count, spike · To what, where: them, bulldog, real kitchen
This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 237 «Animal minds: what dogs and cats feel and understand (and do cats really chase mice?)» 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: Tom the cat, Spike the bulldog and Jerry the mouse in a real kitchen.
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 | _ | 4 Tom | punct |
| 4 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Count | vocative |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 cat | det |
| 6 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Count | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Spike | punct |
| 8 | Spike | spike | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Count | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 bulldog | det |
| 10 | bulldog | bulldog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Spike | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 Jerry | cc |
| 12 | Jerry | Jerry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 bulldog | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 mouse | det |
| 14 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Spike | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 kitchen | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 kitchen | det |
| 17 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 kitchen | amod |
| 18 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Spike | obl |
| 19 | . | . | 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 | Tom vocative; the cat obl | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 2 | spike | infinitive | you not said here | the bulldog and Jerry | a real kitchen | tree rules |
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 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 ears | amod |
| 3 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 tails | cc |
| 5 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 many | advmod |
| 6 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 tails | amod |
| 7 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 ears | conj |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 ears | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
3 ears and 3 tails
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 ears | nummod |
| 2 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 tails | cc |
| 4 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 tails | nummod |
| 5 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 ears | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
6 ears and 6 tails
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 ears | nummod |
| 2 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 tails | cc |
| 4 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 tails | nummod |
| 5 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 ears | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
12 ears and 3 tails
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 ears | nummod |
| 2 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 tails | cc |
| 4 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 tails | nummod |
| 5 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 ears | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
6 ears and 3 tails
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 ears | nummod |
| 2 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 tails | cc |
| 4 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 tails | nummod |
| 5 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 ears | 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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