Test 1 · The microscopic world: cells, the building blocks of life

«my brother says we're made of 100 cells, like big lego bricks» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: brother · What happens: say, make, be · To what, where: we · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 of lesson 256 «The microscopic world: cells, the building blocks of life» 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 says	punct
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 brother	nmod:poss
3	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 made	nsubj
6	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 made	aux:pass
7	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 says	ccomp
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 cells	case
9	100	100	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 cells	nummod
10	cells	cell	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 made	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 bricks	punct
12	like	like	ADP	_	15 bricks	case
13	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 bricks	amod
14	lego	lego	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bricks	compound
15	bricks	brick	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 made	parataxis
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	15 bricks	punct
17	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 right	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 right	cop
19	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 made	parataxis
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	present	my brother			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	make in a quote	present · passive		we	of 100 cells	tree rules
3	is	present			right property	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 · ✓ the right answer

No, about 30 trillion or more, far too small to see

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 trillion	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 trillion	punct
3	about	about	ADV	_	5 trillion	advmod
4	30	30	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 trillion	compound
5	trillion	trillion	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 more	cc
7	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 trillion	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 small	punct
9	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 small	advmod
10	too	too	ADV	_	11 small	advmod
11	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 trillion	parataxis
12	to	to	PART	_	13 see	mark
13	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 small	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	to-infinitive							vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

No, just one giant cell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 cell	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	just	just	ADV	_	6 cell	advmod
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 cell	nummod
5	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cell	amod
6	cell	cell	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Yes, about a hundred big ones that you could count

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 ones	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	about	about	ADV	_	5 hundred	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 hundred	det
5	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 ones	nummod
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 ones	amod
7	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 count	nsubj
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 count	nsubj
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 count	aux
11	count	count	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 ones	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	count	could	hundred big ones						vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

No, people are made of atoms, not cells, so we have none

The tree, 12 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 made	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 made	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 made	aux:pass
5	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 atoms	case
7	atoms	atom	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 made	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 cells	punct
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 cells	advmod
10	cells	cell	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 atoms	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 have	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	14 have	advmod
13	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 have	nsubj
14	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 made	conj
15	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	14 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present · passive		people				of atoms and cells	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
2	have	present	we	none					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent none=Patient

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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