Test 8 · Comeback stories: bald eagles, humpback whales, condors an…
Count them: a ranger watches 2 mountain gorilla mums, each carrying 1 baby. How many gorillas, and how many arms in all?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, ranger, each · What happens: count, watch, carry · To what, where: them, 2 mountain gorilla mums, 1 baby
This is test 8 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: a ranger watches 2 mountain gorilla mums, each carrying 1 baby.
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 watches | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 ranger | det |
| 5 | ranger | ranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 watches | nsubj |
| 6 | watches | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Count | parataxis |
| 7 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 mums | nummod |
| 8 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 mums | compound |
| 9 | gorilla | gorilla | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 mums | compound |
| 10 | mums | mum | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 watches | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 carrying | punct |
| 12 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 carrying | nsubj |
| 13 | carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 watches | advcl |
| 14 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 baby | nummod |
| 15 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 carrying | obj |
| 16 | . | . | 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 | watch | present | a ranger | 2 mountain gorilla mums | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mum=Theme | ||||
| 3 | carry | gerund | each | 1 baby | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=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 gorillas, and how many arms 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 gorillas | amod |
| 3 | gorillas | gorilla | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 arms | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 arms | cc |
| 6 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 many | advmod |
| 7 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 arms | amod |
| 8 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 gorillas | nmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 all | case |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 arms | nmod |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 gorillas | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
4 gorillas and 4 arms
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 gorillas | nummod |
| 2 | gorillas | gorilla | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 arms | cc |
| 4 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 arms | nummod |
| 5 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 gorillas | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
2 gorillas and 4 arms
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 gorillas | nummod |
| 2 | gorillas | gorilla | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 arms | cc |
| 4 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 arms | nummod |
| 5 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 gorillas | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
3 gorillas and 6 arms
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 gorillas | nummod |
| 2 | gorillas | gorilla | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 arms | cc |
| 4 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 arms | nummod |
| 5 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 gorillas | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
4 gorillas and 8 arms
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 gorillas | nummod |
| 2 | gorillas | gorilla | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 arms | cc |
| 4 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 arms | nummod |
| 5 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 gorillas | 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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