Test 4 · How scientists find out: naturalists, Darwin, the microsco…
Count them: in the garden birdwatch Sam counts 5 robins, then says «no wait, 6», and 3 blackbirds. How many birds does he report?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, Sam, many birds · What happens: count, birdwatch, say, report · To what, where: them, garden, 5 robins, wait · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 4 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: in the garden birdwatch Sam counts 5 robins, then says «no wait, 6», and 3 blackbirds.
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 | _ | 7 birdwatch | punct |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 garden | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 garden | det |
| 6 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 birdwatch | obl |
| 7 | birdwatch | birdwatch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Count | parataxis |
| 8 | Sam | Sam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 counts | nsubj |
| 9 | counts | count | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 birdwatch | ccomp |
| 10 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 robins | nummod |
| 11 | robins | robin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 counts | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 says | punct |
| 13 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 says | advmod |
| 14 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 birdwatch | parataxis |
| 15 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 17 wait | punct |
| 16 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 17 wait | det |
| 17 | wait | wait | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 says | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 6 | punct |
| 19 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 wait | appos |
| 20 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 17 wait | punct |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 blackbirds | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 blackbirds | cc |
| 23 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 24 blackbirds | nummod |
| 24 | blackbirds | blackbird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 says | conj |
| 25 | . | . | 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 | birdwatch | infinitive | the garden | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | count | present | Sam | 5 robins | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent robin=Theme | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | present | no wait | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent wait=Topic |
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 birds does he report?
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 birds | amod |
| 3 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 report | nsubj |
| 4 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 report | aux |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 report | nsubj |
| 6 | report | report | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 report | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | report | present · do-support | many birds | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
9
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 9 | 9 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
14
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 14 | 14 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
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 4
6
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6 | 6 | 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/t4/