Test 4 · Defences: venom in snakes, jellyfish, scorpions and the pl…
«2 scorpions in the tank. how many legs, not counting the claws»
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: many legs · What happens: not count · To what, where: claws
This is test 4 of lesson 246 «Defences: venom in snakes, jellyfish, scorpions and the platypus» 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 scorpions | punct |
| 2 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 scorpions | nummod |
| 3 | scorpions | scorpion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 legs | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 tank | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 tank | det |
| 6 | tank | tank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 scorpions | nmod |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 scorpions | 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 | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 counting | punct |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 counting | advmod |
| 13 | counting | count | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 legs | acl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 claws | det |
| 15 | claws | claw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 counting | obj |
| 16 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 13 counting | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not count in a quote | gerund | many legs not said here | the claws | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent claw=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.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
12
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
8
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
20
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
16
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 16 | 16 | 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.
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