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Test 7 · ★★ · Evolution: why giraffes really have long necks

Count them: Darwin sees 3 giant tortoises and 2 iguanas on an island. How many legs in all?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Darwin · What happens: count, see · To what, where: them, 3 giant tortoises

This is test 7 · ★★ of lesson 278 «Evolution: why giraffes really have long necks» 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: Darwin sees 3 giant tortoises and 2 iguanas on an island.

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	_	5 sees	punct
4	Darwin	Darwin	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 sees	nsubj
5	sees	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Count	parataxis
6	3	3	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 tortoises	nummod
7	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 tortoises	amod
8	tortoises	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sees	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 iguanas	cc
10	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 iguanas	nummod
11	iguanas	iguana	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 tortoises	conj
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 island	case
13	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 island	det
14	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 iguanas	nmod
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	see	present	Darwin	3 giant tortoises and 2 iguanas on a island					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tortoise=Stimulus

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 legs 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 legs	amod
3	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 all	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 legs	nmod
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 legs	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

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 2 · ✓ the right answer

20

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	20	20	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 3

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 4

18

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	18	18	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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