Test 2 · Comeback stories: bald eagles, humpback whales, condors an…
Count them: 3 sea otters float on their backs, each with 1 stone on its belly. How many paws and stones are there in all?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, 3 sea otters, many paws · What happens: count, float, be · To what, where: them, backs, all
This is test 2 of lesson 282 «Comeback stories: bald eagles, humpback whales, condors and the kakapo» 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: 3 sea otters float on their backs, each with 1 stone on its belly.
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 float | punct |
| 4 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 otters | nummod |
| 5 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 otters | compound |
| 6 | otters | otter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 float | nsubj |
| 7 | float | float | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Count | parataxis |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 backs | case |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 backs | nmod:poss |
| 10 | backs | back | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 float | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 each | punct |
| 12 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 backs | appos |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 stone | case |
| 14 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 stone | nummod |
| 15 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 each | nmod |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 belly | case |
| 17 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 belly | nmod:poss |
| 18 | belly | belly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 float | obl |
| 19 | . | . | 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 | float | present | 3 sea otters | otters's backs | on stone's belly | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme on back=Source on belly=Trajectory |
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 paws and stones 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 | 3 paws | amod |
| 3 | paws | paw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 there | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 stones | cc |
| 5 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 paws | conj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 there | cop |
| 7 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 all | case |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 there | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 there | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | many paws and stones | all | there property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
12 paws and 1 stone
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 paws | nummod |
| 2 | paws | paw | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 stone | cc |
| 4 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 stone | nummod |
| 5 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 paws | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
16 paws and 3 stones
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 16 | 16 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 paws | nummod |
| 2 | paws | paw | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 stones | cc |
| 4 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 stones | nummod |
| 5 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 paws | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
8 paws and 3 stones
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 paws | nummod |
| 2 | paws | paw | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 stones | cc |
| 4 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 stones | nummod |
| 5 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 paws | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
12 paws and 3 stones
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 paws | nummod |
| 2 | paws | paw | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 stones | cc |
| 4 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 stones | nummod |
| 5 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 paws | 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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