Test 4 · ★ · Feathered dinosaurs: from Archaeopteryx to the chicken on…
Count them: Mum puts 2 roast chickens on the table. How many drumsticks and wishbones are there?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Mum, many drumsticks · What happens: count, put, be · To what, where: them, 2 roast chickens, table
This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 269 «Feathered dinosaurs: from Archaeopteryx to the chicken on your plate» 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: Mum puts 2 roast chickens on the table.
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 puts | punct |
| 4 | Mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 puts | nsubj |
| 5 | puts | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Count | parataxis |
| 6 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 chickens | nummod |
| 7 | roast | roast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 chickens | compound |
| 8 | chickens | chicken | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 puts | obj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 table | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 table | det |
| 11 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 puts | obl |
| 12 | . | . | 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 | put | present | Mum | 2 roast chickens | the table | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent chicken=Theme on table=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 drumsticks and wishbones are there?
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 drumsticks | amod |
| 3 | drumsticks | drumstick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 there | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 wishbones | cc |
| 5 | wishbones | wishbone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 drumsticks | conj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 there | cop |
| 7 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 there | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | many drumsticks and wishbones | there property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
2 drumsticks and 4 wishbones
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 drumsticks | nummod |
| 2 | drumsticks | drumstick | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 wishbones | cc |
| 4 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 wishbones | nummod |
| 5 | wishbones | wishbone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 drumsticks | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
4 drumsticks and 2 wishbones
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 drumsticks | nummod |
| 2 | drumsticks | drumstick | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 wishbones | cc |
| 4 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 wishbones | nummod |
| 5 | wishbones | wishbone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 drumsticks | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
8 drumsticks and 2 wishbones
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 drumsticks | nummod |
| 2 | drumsticks | drumstick | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 wishbones | cc |
| 4 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 wishbones | nummod |
| 5 | wishbones | wishbone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 drumsticks | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
4 drumsticks and 4 wishbones
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 drumsticks | nummod |
| 2 | drumsticks | drumstick | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 wishbones | cc |
| 4 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 wishbones | nummod |
| 5 | wishbones | wishbone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 drumsticks | 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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