Mova0.5 pre-release⌕

☰

home / corpora / questions / Biology / Fossils: how a living thing turns to s… / t11

Test 11 · Fossils: how a living thing turns to stone and how we dig…

Count them: a palaeontologist wraps 4 big bones in plaster jackets and 2 more wait for tomorrow. How many big bones need jackets in all?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, palaeontologist, many big bones · What happens: count, wrap, need · To what, where: them, 4 big bones, plaster jackets, jackets, all

This is test 11 of lesson 275 «Fossils: how a living thing turns to stone and how we dig it up» 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 palaeontologist wraps 4 big bones in plaster jackets and 2 more wait for tomorrow.

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	_	6 wraps	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 palaeontologist	det
5	palaeontologist	palaeontologist	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wraps	nsubj
6	wraps	wrap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Count	parataxis
7	4	4	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 bones	nummod
8	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 bones	amod
9	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 wraps	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 jackets	case
11	plaster	plaster	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 jackets	compound
12	jackets	jacket	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 wraps	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 wait	cc
14	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	16 wait	nummod
15	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	16 wait	amod
16	wait	wait	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 jackets	conj
17	for	for	ADP	_	18 tomorrow	case
18	tomorrow	tomorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 wait	nmod
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					vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	wrap	present	a palaeontologist	4 big bones		plaster jackets and 2 more wait for tomorrow			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bone=Theme in jacket=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 big bones need jackets 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	4 bones	amod
3	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bones	amod
4	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 need	nsubj
5	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	jackets	jacket	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 need	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 jackets	nmod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 need	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	many big bones	jackets		all			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot jacket=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

4

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	4	4	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

8

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	8	8	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

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 4

2

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	2	2	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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/275-fossils-how-a-living-thing-turns-to-stone-and-how-we-dig-it-up/t11/