Test 3 · Team players and partners: meerkats, naked mole rats, hudd…
«7 meerkats on the rock, how many legs is that»
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: 7 meerkats · What happens: be · To what, where: that
This is test 3 of lesson 241 «Team players and partners: meerkats, naked mole rats, huddles, cleaners (and do lemmings jump?)» 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 3 meerkats | punct |
| 2 | 7 | 7 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 meerkats | nummod |
| 3 | meerkats | meerkat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 that | nsubj |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 rock | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 rock | det |
| 6 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 meerkats | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 legs | punct |
| 8 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 many | advmod |
| 9 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 legs | amod |
| 10 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 rock | conj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 that | cop |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 13 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 12 that | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | 7 meerkats on the rock and many legs | that | 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.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
14
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 14 | 14 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
28
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 28 | 28 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
21
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 21 | 21 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
35
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 35 | 35 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/241-team-players-and-partners-meerkats-naked-mole-rats-huddles-cleaners-and-lemmings/t3/