Test 4 · ★ · The long-necked giants: Diplodocus, Brachiosaurus, Argenti…
Count them: 4 Diplodocus walk past in a herd. How many legs, heads and tails is that?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, 4, many legs · What happens: count, walk, be · To what, where: them, herd, that
This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 266 «The long-necked giants: Diplodocus, Brachiosaurus, Argentinosaurus and Brontosaurus» 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: 4 Diplodocus walk past in a herd.
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 | _ | 1 Count | punct |
| 4 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 walk | nsubj |
| 5 | Diplodocus | Diplodocus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 walk | nsubj |
| 6 | walk | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Count | parataxis |
| 7 | past | past | ADV | _ | 6 walk | advmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 herd | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 herd | det |
| 10 | herd | herd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 walk | obl |
| 11 | . | . | 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 | walk | present | 4 | a herd | past property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in herd=Trajectory |
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, heads and tails is that?
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 | 9 that | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 heads | punct |
| 5 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 legs | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 tails | cc |
| 7 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 legs | conj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 that | cop |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 that | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | many legs and heads and tails | that | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
16 legs, 8 heads and 4 tails
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 16 | 16 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 legs | nummod |
| 2 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 heads | punct |
| 4 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 heads | nummod |
| 5 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 legs | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 tails | cc |
| 7 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 tails | nummod |
| 8 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 legs | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
8 legs, 4 heads and 4 tails
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 legs | nummod |
| 2 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 heads | punct |
| 4 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 heads | nummod |
| 5 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 legs | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 tails | cc |
| 7 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 tails | nummod |
| 8 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 legs | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
16 legs, 4 heads and 8 tails
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 16 | 16 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 legs | nummod |
| 2 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 heads | punct |
| 4 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 heads | nummod |
| 5 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 legs | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 tails | cc |
| 7 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 tails | nummod |
| 8 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 legs | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
16 legs, 4 heads and 4 tails
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 16 | 16 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 legs | nummod |
| 2 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 heads | punct |
| 4 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 heads | nummod |
| 5 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 legs | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 tails | cc |
| 7 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 tails | nummod |
| 8 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 legs | conj |
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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