Test 3 · Horns, frills, plates and clubs: Triceratops, Stegosaurus,…
Count them: 2 Triceratops and 3 Stegosaurus stand in a museum. How many horns on the Triceratops and spikes on the Stegosaurus tails in all?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, 2 Triceratops · What happens: count, stand · To what, where: them, museum
This is test 3 of lesson 267 «Horns, frills, plates and clubs: Triceratops, Stegosaurus, Ankylosaurus and the duck-bills» 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: 2 Triceratops and 3 Stegosaurus stand in a museum.
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 | _ | 5 Triceratops | punct |
| 4 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 Triceratops | nummod |
| 5 | Triceratops | triceratops | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 stand | nsubj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 Stegosaurus | cc |
| 7 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 Stegosaurus | nummod |
| 8 | Stegosaurus | stegosauru | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 Triceratops | conj |
| 9 | stand | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Count | parataxis |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 museum | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 museum | det |
| 12 | museum | museum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stand | obl |
| 13 | . | . | 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 | stand | present | 2 Triceratops and 3 Stegosaurus | a museum | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in museum=Location |
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 horns on the Triceratops and spikes on the Stegosaurus tails in all?
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 horns | amod |
| 3 | horns | horn | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 Triceratops | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Triceratops | det |
| 6 | Triceratops | triceratops | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 horns | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 spikes | cc |
| 8 | spikes | spike | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 Triceratops | conj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 tails | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 tails | det |
| 11 | Stegosaurus | Stegosaurus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 tails | compound |
| 12 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 spikes | nmod |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 all | case |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 tails | nmod |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 horns | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
3 horns and 12 spikes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 horns | nummod |
| 2 | horns | horn | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 spikes | cc |
| 4 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 spikes | nummod |
| 5 | spikes | spike | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 horns | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
6 horns and 12 spikes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 horns | nummod |
| 2 | horns | horn | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 spikes | cc |
| 4 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 spikes | nummod |
| 5 | spikes | spike | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 horns | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
6 horns and 6 spikes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 horns | nummod |
| 2 | horns | horn | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 spikes | cc |
| 4 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 spikes | nummod |
| 5 | spikes | spike | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 horns | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
5 horns and 8 spikes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 horns | nummod |
| 2 | horns | horn | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 spikes | cc |
| 4 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 spikes | nummod |
| 5 | spikes | spike | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 horns | 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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