Test 5 · ★★ · The asteroid: the day the dinosaurs died and who survived
Count them: after the disaster, a pond has 3 frogs, 2 turtles and 1 crocodile. How many legs are there in all?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, pond, many legs · What happens: count, have, be · To what, where: them, 3 frogs, all
This is test 5 · ★★ of lesson 271 «The asteroid: the day the dinosaurs died and who survived» 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: after the disaster, a pond has 3 frogs, 2 turtles and 1 crocodile.
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 | after | after | ADP | _ | 6 disaster | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 disaster | det |
| 6 | disaster | disaster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Count | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 has | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 pond | det |
| 9 | pond | pond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 has | nsubj |
| 10 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Count | parataxis |
| 11 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 frogs | nummod |
| 12 | frogs | frog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 has | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 turtles | punct |
| 14 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 turtles | nummod |
| 15 | turtles | turtle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 frogs | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 crocodile | cc |
| 17 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 18 crocodile | nummod |
| 18 | crocodile | crocodile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 frogs | conj |
| 19 | . | . | 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 | after the disaster | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 2 | have | present | a pond | 3 frogs and 2 turtles and 1 crocodile | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent frog=Patient |
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 are there 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 legs | amod |
| 3 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 there | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 there | cop |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 all | case |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 there | obl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 there | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | many legs | all | there property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
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.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
24
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 24 | 24 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
12
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
18
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 18 | 18 | 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.
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