Test 10 · ★ · What a child can do for nature
«picked up 20 bits of plastic on the beach, 6 were bottle tops — no wait, 8. how many weren't bottle tops»
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: picked 20 bits · What happens: pick up, be, not be · To what, where: 6 bottle tops, bottle tops
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 285 «What a child can do for nature» 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 2 picked | punct |
| 2 | picked | pick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 bits | amod |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 picked | compound:prt |
| 4 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 bits | nummod |
| 5 | bits | bit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 tops | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 plastic | case |
| 7 | plastic | plastic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bits | nmod |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 beach | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 beach | det |
| 10 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 plastic | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 6 | punct |
| 12 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 tops | nummod |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 tops | cop |
| 14 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tops | compound |
| 15 | tops | top | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 bits | conj |
| 16 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 wait | punct |
| 17 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 18 wait | det |
| 18 | wait | wait | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bits | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 8 | punct |
| 20 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 18 wait | appos |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 8 | punct |
| 22 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 many | advmod |
| 23 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 wait | advcl |
| 24 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 tops | cop |
| 25 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 tops | advmod |
| 26 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 tops | compound |
| 27 | tops | top | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 28 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 27 tops | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pick up in a quote | participle | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | past | picked 20 bits of plastic on the beach and 6 bottle tops and no wait not said here | 6 bottle tops | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not is a in a quote | past | picked 20 bits of plastic on the beach and 6 bottle tops and no wait | bottle tops | tree rules |
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.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
8
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
12
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
20
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
14
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 14 | 14 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/285-what-a-child-can-do-for-nature/t10/