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Test 4 · Fossils: how a living thing turns to stone and how we dig…

Count them: a museum shows 3 fossil footprints of a two-legged dinosaur, each with 3 toes. How many toe marks are there in all?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, museum, many toe marks · What happens: count, show, be · To what, where: them, 3 fossil footprints, all

This is test 4 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 museum shows 3 fossil footprints of a two-legged dinosaur, each with 3 toes.

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 shows	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 museum	det
5	museum	museum	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 shows	nsubj
6	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Count	parataxis
7	3	3	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 footprints	nummod
8	fossil	fossil	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 footprints	compound
9	footprints	footprint	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 shows	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	15 dinosaur	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 dinosaur	det
12	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 legged	nummod
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 two	punct
14	legged	legged	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 dinosaur	amod
15	dinosaur	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 footprints	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 each	punct
17	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	9 footprints	appos
18	with	with	ADP	_	20 toes	case
19	3	3	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	20 toes	nummod
20	toes	toe	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 each	nmod
21	.	.	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 museum	3 fossil footprints of a legged dinosaur					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent footprint=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 toe marks 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	4 marks	amod
3	toe	toe	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 marks	compound
4	marks	mark	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 there	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 there	cop
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 there	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 there	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	many toe marks			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

9

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	9	9	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

3

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	3	3	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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