Test 7 · Conservation heroes: Attenborough, Goodall, Carson, Maatha…
Count them: a ranger team of 4 people walks with 2 sniffer dogs. How many legs, ears and noses are there?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, ranger team, many legs · What happens: count, walk, be · To what, where: them
This is test 7 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: a ranger team of 4 people walks with 2 sniffer dogs.
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 walks | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 team | det |
| 5 | ranger | ranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 team | compound |
| 6 | team | team | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 walks | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 people | case |
| 8 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 people | nummod |
| 9 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 team | nmod |
| 10 | walks | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Count | parataxis |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 dogs | case |
| 12 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 dogs | nummod |
| 13 | sniffer | sniffer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 dogs | compound |
| 14 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 walks | obl |
| 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 | walk | present | a ranger team of 4 people | with 2 sniffer dogs | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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 legs, ears and noses 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 noses | cc |
| 7 | noses | nose | 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 noses | there property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
12 legs, 12 ears and 6 noses
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 12 | 12 | 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 noses | cc |
| 7 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 noses | nummod |
| 8 | noses | nose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 legs | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
16 legs, 12 ears and 4 noses
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 noses | cc |
| 7 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 noses | nummod |
| 8 | noses | nose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 legs | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
16 legs, 6 ears and 6 noses
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 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 ears | nummod |
| 5 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 legs | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 noses | cc |
| 7 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 noses | nummod |
| 8 | noses | nose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 legs | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
16 legs, 12 ears and 6 noses
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 noses | cc |
| 7 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 noses | nummod |
| 8 | noses | nose | 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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