Test 8 · Extinct forever: the dodo, the passenger pigeon, the thyla…
Count them: a zebra and a quagga stand in a museum. How many tails, ears and legs do they have in all?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, many tails · What happens: count, have · To what, where: them, all
This is test 8 of lesson 281 «Extinct forever: the dodo, the passenger pigeon, the thylacine and more» 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 zebra and a quagga stand in a museum.
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 zebra | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 zebra | det |
| 5 | zebra | zebra | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Count | parataxis |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 stand | cc |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 stand | det |
| 8 | quagga | quagga | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stand | compound |
| 9 | stand | stand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 zebra | conj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 museum | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 museum | det |
| 12 | museum | museum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stand | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | 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 |
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 tails, ears and legs do they have 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 tails | amod |
| 3 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 have | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 ears | punct |
| 5 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 tails | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 legs | cc |
| 7 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 tails | conj |
| 8 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 have | aux |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 have | nsubj |
| 10 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 all | case |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 have | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 have | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present · do-support | many tails and ears and legs | all | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
2 tails, 2 ears and 8 legs
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 tails | nummod |
| 2 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 ears | punct |
| 4 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 ears | nummod |
| 5 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 tails | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 legs | cc |
| 7 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 legs | nummod |
| 8 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 tails | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
2 tails, 4 ears and 4 legs
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 tails | nummod |
| 2 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 ears | punct |
| 4 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 ears | nummod |
| 5 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 tails | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 legs | cc |
| 7 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 legs | nummod |
| 8 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 tails | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
2 tails, 4 ears and 8 legs
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 tails | nummod |
| 2 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 ears | punct |
| 4 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 ears | nummod |
| 5 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 tails | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 legs | cc |
| 7 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 legs | nummod |
| 8 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 tails | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
1 tail, 4 ears and 8 legs
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 tail | nummod |
| 2 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 ears | punct |
| 4 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 ears | nummod |
| 5 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 tail | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 legs | cc |
| 7 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 legs | nummod |
| 8 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 tail | conj |
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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