Test 3 · Mammoths and the Ice Age giants: sabre-tooths, ground slot…
Count them: a cave painting shows 3 woolly mammoths and 2 woolly rhinos. How many trunks, tails and front horns in all?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, cave painting · What happens: count, show · To what, where: them, 3 woolly mammoths
This is test 3 of lesson 272 «Mammoths and the Ice Age giants: sabre-tooths, ground sloths and woolly rhinos» 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: a cave painting shows 3 woolly mammoths and 2 woolly rhinos.
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 shows | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 painting | det |
| 5 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 painting | compound |
| 6 | painting | painting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 shows | nsubj |
| 7 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Count | parataxis |
| 8 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 mammoths | nummod |
| 9 | woolly | woolly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 mammoths | amod |
| 10 | mammoths | mammoth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 shows | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 rhinos | cc |
| 12 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 rhinos | nummod |
| 13 | woolly | woolly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 rhinos | amod |
| 14 | rhinos | rhino | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 mammoths | conj |
| 15 | . | . | 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 | show | present | a cave painting | 3 woolly mammoths and 2 woolly rhinos | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mammoth=Recipient |
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 trunks, tails and front horns 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 trunks | amod |
| 3 | trunks | trunk | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 tails | punct |
| 5 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 trunks | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 horns | cc |
| 7 | front | front | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 horns | amod |
| 8 | horns | horn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 trunks | conj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 all | case |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 horns | nmod |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 trunks | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
3 trunks, 5 tails and 5 front horns
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 trunks | nummod |
| 2 | trunks | trunk | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 tails | punct |
| 4 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 tails | nummod |
| 5 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 trunks | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 horns | cc |
| 7 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 horns | nummod |
| 8 | front | front | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 horns | amod |
| 9 | horns | horn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 trunks | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
3 trunks, 3 tails and 3 front horns
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 trunks | nummod |
| 2 | trunks | trunk | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 tails | punct |
| 4 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 tails | nummod |
| 5 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 trunks | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 horns | cc |
| 7 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 horns | nummod |
| 8 | front | front | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 horns | amod |
| 9 | horns | horn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 trunks | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
3 trunks, 5 tails and 2 front horns
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 trunks | nummod |
| 2 | trunks | trunk | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 tails | punct |
| 4 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 tails | nummod |
| 5 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 trunks | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 horns | cc |
| 7 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 horns | nummod |
| 8 | front | front | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 horns | amod |
| 9 | horns | horn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 trunks | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
5 trunks, 5 tails and 2 front horns
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 trunks | nummod |
| 2 | trunks | trunk | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 tails | punct |
| 4 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 tails | nummod |
| 5 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 trunks | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 horns | cc |
| 7 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 horns | nummod |
| 8 | front | front | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 horns | amod |
| 9 | horns | horn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 trunks | 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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