Test 10 · ★ · How old is it? Rock layers, rock clocks, amber and the lon…
Count them: a Cambrian scene has 2 Opabinia, each with 5 eyes, and 1 trilobite with 2 eyes. How many eyes in all?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Cambrian scene · What happens: count, have · To what, where: them, 2 Opabinia
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 276 «How old is it? Rock layers, rock clocks, amber and the long story of life» 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 Cambrian scene has 2 Opabinia, each with 5 eyes, and 1 trilobite with 2 eyes.
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 has | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 scene | det |
| 5 | Cambrian | cambrian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 scene | amod |
| 6 | scene | scene | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 has | nsubj |
| 7 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Count | parataxis |
| 8 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 Opabinia | nummod |
| 9 | Opabinia | Opabinia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 has | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 each | punct |
| 11 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 has | obl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 eyes | case |
| 13 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 eyes | nummod |
| 14 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 each | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 trilobite | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 trilobite | cc |
| 17 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 18 trilobite | nummod |
| 18 | trilobite | trilobite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 has | conj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 eyes | case |
| 20 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 21 eyes | nummod |
| 21 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 trilobite | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | 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 | have | present | a Cambrian scene | 2 Opabinia | each obl | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opabinia=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 eyes 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 eyes | amod |
| 3 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 all | case |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 eyes | nmod |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 eyes | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
10
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
15
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 15 | 15 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
7
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 7 | 7 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
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.
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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