Test 7 · ★★★ · Evolution myths put right: monkeys, the strongest and miss…
Count them: a museum shows Tiktaalik with 4 leg-like fins, Archaeopteryx with 2 legs and 2 wings, and an early whale with 4 legs. How many limbs in all?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, museum · What happens: count, show · To what, where: them, Tiktaalik
This is test 7 · ★★★ of lesson 280 «Evolution myths put right: monkeys, the strongest and missing links» 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 Tiktaalik with 4 leg-like fins, Archaeopteryx with 2 legs and 2 wings, and an early whale with 4 legs.
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 | Tiktaalik | Tiktaalik | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 shows | obj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 fins | case |
| 9 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 fins | nummod |
| 10 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 like | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 leg | punct |
| 12 | like | like | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 fins | amod |
| 13 | fins | fin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 shows | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Archaeopteryx | punct |
| 15 | Archaeopteryx | Archaeopteryx | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 fins | appos |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 legs | case |
| 17 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 18 legs | nummod |
| 18 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 Archaeopteryx | nmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 wings | cc |
| 20 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 21 wings | nummod |
| 21 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 legs | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 whale | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 whale | cc |
| 24 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 whale | det |
| 25 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 whale | amod |
| 26 | whale | whale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 shows | parataxis |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 legs | case |
| 28 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 29 legs | nummod |
| 29 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 whale | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | 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 | Tiktaalik | with 4 like fins | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tiktaalik=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 limbs 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 limbs | amod |
| 3 | limbs | limb | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 all | case |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 limbs | nmod |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 limbs | 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
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
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
14
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 14 | 14 | 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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