Test 4 · Conservation heroes: Attenborough, Goodall, Carson, Maatha…
Count them: in a garden birdwatch you see 3 robins and 2 magpies. How many birds, legs and wings did you count?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, many birds · What happens: count, birdwatch, see · To what, where: them, garden, 3 robins
This is test 4 of lesson 284 «Conservation heroes: Attenborough, Goodall, Carson, Maathai and the rangers» 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: in a garden birdwatch you see 3 robins and 2 magpies.
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 birdwatch | punct |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 garden | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 garden | det |
| 6 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 birdwatch | obl |
| 7 | birdwatch | birdwatch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Count | parataxis |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 see | nsubj |
| 9 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 birdwatch | ccomp |
| 10 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 robins | nummod |
| 11 | robins | robin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 see | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 magpies | cc |
| 13 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 magpies | nummod |
| 14 | magpies | magpie | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 robins | conj |
| 15 | . | . | 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 | birdwatch | infinitive | a garden | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | see | present | you | 3 robins and 2 magpies | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer robin=Stimulus |
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 birds, legs and wings did you count?
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 birds | amod |
| 3 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 count | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 legs | punct |
| 5 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 birds | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 wings | cc |
| 7 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 birds | conj |
| 8 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 count | aux |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 count | nsubj |
| 10 | count | count | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 count | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | count | past · do-support | many birds and legs and wings | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
5 birds, 20 legs and 10 wings
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 birds | nummod |
| 2 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 legs | punct |
| 4 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 legs | nummod |
| 5 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 birds | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 wings | cc |
| 7 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 wings | nummod |
| 8 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 birds | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
6 birds, 12 legs and 12 wings
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 birds | nummod |
| 2 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 legs | punct |
| 4 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 legs | nummod |
| 5 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 birds | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 wings | cc |
| 7 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 wings | nummod |
| 8 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 birds | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
5 birds, 10 legs and 10 wings
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 birds | nummod |
| 2 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 legs | punct |
| 4 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 legs | nummod |
| 5 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 birds | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 wings | cc |
| 7 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 wings | nummod |
| 8 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 birds | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
5 birds, 10 legs and 5 wings
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 birds | nummod |
| 2 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 legs | punct |
| 4 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 legs | nummod |
| 5 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 birds | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 wings | cc |
| 7 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 wings | nummod |
| 8 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 birds | 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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