Test 8 · ★★★ · Terror birds, moas, giant insects and other lost giants
Count them: one elephant bird egg is like 150 hen's eggs. How many hen's eggs are 2 elephant bird eggs like?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, one bird egg, eggs · What happens: count, be · To what, where: them, 2 bird eggs
This is test 8 · ★★★ of lesson 274 «Terror birds, moas, giant insects and other lost giants» 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: one elephant bird egg is like 150 hen's eggs.
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 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 egg | nummod |
| 5 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bird | compound |
| 6 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 egg | compound |
| 7 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 eggs | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 eggs | cop |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 13 eggs | case |
| 10 | 150 | 150 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 hen | nummod |
| 11 | hen | hen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 eggs | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 hen | case |
| 13 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Count | parataxis |
| 14 | . | . | 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 | is | present | one bird egg | like 150 hen's eggs | tree rules |
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 hen's eggs are 2 elephant bird eggs like?
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 hen | amod |
| 3 | hen | hen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 eggs | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 hen | case |
| 5 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 eggs | nsubj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 eggs | cop |
| 7 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 eggs | nummod |
| 8 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bird | compound |
| 9 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 eggs | compound |
| 10 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 11 | like | like | ADP | _ | 10 eggs | nmod |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 eggs | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | many hen's eggs | 2 bird eggs | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
152
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 152 | 152 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
300
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 300 | 300 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
75
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 75 | 75 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
150
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 150 | 150 | 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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