Test 4 · ★ · Wolves in Yellowstone, beavers in Britain and bringing nat…
Count them: a wolf family has mum, dad and 4 cubs. How many legs, ears and tails are there?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, wolf family, many legs · What happens: count, have, be · To what, where: them, mum
This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 283 «Wolves in Yellowstone, beavers in Britain and bringing nature back» 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 wolf family has mum, dad and 4 cubs.
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 has | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 family | det |
| 5 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 family | compound |
| 6 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 has | nsubj |
| 7 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Count | parataxis |
| 8 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 has | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 dad | punct |
| 10 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 mum | conj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 cubs | cc |
| 12 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 cubs | nummod |
| 13 | cubs | cub | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 mum | conj |
| 14 | . | . | 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 | have | present | a wolf family | mum and dad and 4 cubs | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mum=Patient |
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, ears and tails are there?
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 | 9 there | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 ears | punct |
| 5 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 legs | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 tails | cc |
| 7 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 legs | conj |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 there | cop |
| 9 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 there | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | many legs and ears and tails | there property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
16 legs, 12 ears and 6 tails
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 16 | 16 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 legs | nummod |
| 2 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 ears | punct |
| 4 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 ears | nummod |
| 5 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 legs | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 tails | cc |
| 7 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 tails | nummod |
| 8 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 legs | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
24 legs, 12 ears and 6 tails
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 24 | 24 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 legs | nummod |
| 2 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 ears | punct |
| 4 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 ears | nummod |
| 5 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 legs | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 tails | cc |
| 7 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 tails | nummod |
| 8 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 legs | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
24 legs, 6 ears and 6 tails
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 24 | 24 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 legs | nummod |
| 2 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 ears | punct |
| 4 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 ears | nummod |
| 5 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 legs | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 tails | cc |
| 7 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 tails | nummod |
| 8 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 legs | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
24 legs, 12 ears and 4 tails
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 24 | 24 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 legs | nummod |
| 2 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 ears | punct |
| 4 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 ears | nummod |
| 5 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 legs | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 tails | cc |
| 7 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 tails | nummod |
| 8 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 legs | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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