Test 4 · The human body deeper: lungs, stomach and guts
Count them: a balloon needs 3 normal breaths of half a litre each. How much air is that?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, balloon, much air · What happens: count, need, be · To what, where: them, 3 normal breaths
This is test 4 of lesson 262 «The human body deeper: lungs, stomach and guts» 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: a balloon needs 3 normal breaths of half a litre each.
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 | _ | 6 needs | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 balloon | det |
| 5 | balloon | balloon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 needs | nsubj |
| 6 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Count | parataxis |
| 7 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 breaths | nummod |
| 8 | normal | normal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 breaths | amod |
| 9 | breaths | breath | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 needs | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 litre | case |
| 11 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 13 litre | det:predet |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 litre | det |
| 13 | litre | litre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 breaths | nmod |
| 14 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 litre | nmod:unmarked |
| 15 | . | . | 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 | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 2 | need | present | a balloon | 3 normal breaths of half litre each | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot breath=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.
Sentence 2: How much air is that?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 air | amod |
| 3 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 How | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 How | cop |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 1 How | nsubj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 How | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | much air | how property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Six litres
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 litres | nummod |
| 2 | litres | litre | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
One and a half litres
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 litres | cc |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 half | det |
| 4 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 5 litres | compound |
| 5 | litres | litre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 One | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Three litres
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 litres | nummod |
| 2 | litres | litre | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Half a litre
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 3 litre | det:predet |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 litre | det |
| 3 | litre | litre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 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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