Test 3 · How scientists find out: naturalists, Darwin, the microsco…
Count them: a girl draws 3 beetles and 2 spiders in her notebook. How many legs does she draw if she gets them right?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, girl, many legs · What happens: count, draw, get · To what, where: them, 3 beetles, notebook, legs
This is test 3 of lesson 264 «How scientists find out: naturalists, Darwin, the microscope and wildlife filming» 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 girl draws 3 beetles and 2 spiders in her notebook.
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 draws | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 girl | det |
| 5 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 draws | nsubj |
| 6 | draws | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Count | parataxis |
| 7 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 beetles | nummod |
| 8 | beetles | beetle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 draws | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 spiders | cc |
| 10 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 spiders | nummod |
| 11 | spiders | spider | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 beetles | conj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 notebook | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 notebook | nmod:poss |
| 14 | notebook | notebook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 draws | obl |
| 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 | draw | present | a girl | 3 beetles and 2 spiders | girl's notebook | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent beetle=Theme in notebook=Destination |
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 many legs does she draw if she gets them right?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 many | advmod |
| 2 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 legs | amod |
| 3 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 draw | nsubj |
| 4 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 draw | aux |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 draw | nsubj |
| 6 | draw | draw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 gets | mark |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 gets | nsubj |
| 9 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 draw | advcl |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 gets | obj |
| 11 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 gets | xcomp |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 draw | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | present · do-support | many legs | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | get a condition, not said to happen | present | girl | legs = leg | right property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
30
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 30 | 30 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
40
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 40 | 40 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
34
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 34 | 34 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
25
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 25 | 25 | 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/264-how-scientists-find-out-naturalists-darwin-the-microscope-and-wildlife-filming/t3/