Test 9 · ★ · Wolves in Yellowstone, beavers in Britain and bringing nat…
Count them: a stork pair on a chimney has 3 chicks. How many legs and wings are there in the nest?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, stork pair, many legs · What happens: count, have, be · To what, where: them, 3 chicks, nest
This is test 9 · ★ 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 stork pair on a chimney has 3 chicks.
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 | _ | 10 has | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 pair | det |
| 5 | stork | stork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pair | compound |
| 6 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 has | nsubj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 chimney | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 chimney | det |
| 9 | chimney | chimney | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pair | nmod |
| 10 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Count | parataxis |
| 11 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 chicks | nummod |
| 12 | chicks | chick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 has | obj |
| 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 | ||||
| 2 | have | present | a stork pair on a chimney | 3 chicks | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chick=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 and wings are there in the nest?
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 | 7 there | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 wings | cc |
| 5 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 legs | 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 | _ | 10 nest | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 nest | det |
| 10 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 there | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 there | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | many legs and wings | the nest | there property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
10 legs and 10 wings
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 legs | nummod |
| 2 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 wings | cc |
| 4 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 wings | nummod |
| 5 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 legs | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
10 legs and 5 wings
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 legs | nummod |
| 2 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 wings | cc |
| 4 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 wings | nummod |
| 5 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 legs | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
6 legs and 6 wings
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 legs | nummod |
| 2 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 wings | cc |
| 4 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 wings | nummod |
| 5 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 legs | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
20 legs and 10 wings
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 legs | nummod |
| 2 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 wings | cc |
| 4 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 wings | nummod |
| 5 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 legs | 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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