Test 9 · Defences: tricks and myths: playing dead, dropping tails,…
«4 lizards lost their tails, no sorry 3 lost them. how many still got tails if there's 7 lizards»
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: 4 lizards, sorry 3, many, 7 lizards · What happens: lose, get, be · To what, where: tails
This is test 9 of lesson 249 «Defences: tricks and myths: playing dead, dropping tails, ink, and do ostriches bury their heads?» 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 | _ | 4 lost | punct |
| 2 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 lizards | nummod |
| 3 | lizards | lizard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 lost | nsubj |
| 4 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 got | advcl |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 tails | nmod:poss |
| 6 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 lost | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 lost | punct |
| 8 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 3 | det |
| 9 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 3 | amod |
| 10 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 lost | nsubj |
| 11 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 lost | conj |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 lost | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lost | punct |
| 14 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 many | advmod |
| 15 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 got | nsubj |
| 16 | still | still | ADV | _ | 17 got | advmod |
| 17 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 got | obj |
| 19 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 21 's | mark |
| 20 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 21 's | expl |
| 21 | 's | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 got | advcl |
| 22 | 7 | 7 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 23 lizards | nummod |
| 23 | lizards | lizard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 's | nsubj |
| 24 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 17 got | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose in a quote | past | 4 lizards | lizards's tails | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | lose in a quote | past | no sorry 3 | tails = tail | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | get in a quote | past | many | tails | still | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tail=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | does a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | 7 lizards | there | vn exist-47.1 «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.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
5
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
7
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 7 | 7 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
3
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
4
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4 | 4 | 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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