Test 6 · ★★★ · Cats through history: Egypt's sacred cats, ship cats and T…
Count them: 4 cats sit on a ship's deck. How many legs, tails and whiskers if each has 24?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, 4 cats, many legs · What happens: count, sit, have · To what, where: them, deck, 24
This is test 6 · ★★★ of lesson 294 «Cats through history: Egypt's sacred cats, ship cats and Tom and Jerry» 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: 4 cats sit on a ship's deck.
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 | _ | 1 Count | punct |
| 4 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 cats | nummod |
| 5 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 sit | nsubj |
| 6 | sit | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Count | parataxis |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 deck | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 ship | det |
| 9 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 deck | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 ship | case |
| 11 | deck | deck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sit | obl |
| 12 | . | . | 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 | sit | present | 4 cats | a ship's deck | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on deck=Location |
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, tails and whiskers if each has 24?
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 | 10 has | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 tails | punct |
| 5 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 legs | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 whiskers | cc |
| 7 | whiskers | whisker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 legs | conj |
| 8 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 has | mark |
| 9 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 has | nsubj |
| 10 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | 24 | 24 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 has | obj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 has | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | many legs and tails and whiskers | 24 | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 24=Patient |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
12 legs, 4 tails and 96 whiskers
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 tails | punct |
| 4 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 tails | nummod |
| 5 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 legs | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 whiskers | cc |
| 7 | 96 | 96 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 whiskers | nummod |
| 8 | whiskers | whisker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 legs | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
16 legs, 4 tails and 24 whiskers
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 tails | punct |
| 4 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 tails | nummod |
| 5 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 legs | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 whiskers | cc |
| 7 | 24 | 24 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 whiskers | nummod |
| 8 | whiskers | whisker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 legs | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
16 legs, 4 tails and 96 whiskers
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 tails | punct |
| 4 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 tails | nummod |
| 5 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 legs | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 whiskers | cc |
| 7 | 96 | 96 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 whiskers | nummod |
| 8 | whiskers | whisker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 legs | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
16 legs, 8 tails and 96 whiskers
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 tails | punct |
| 4 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 tails | nummod |
| 5 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 legs | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 whiskers | cc |
| 7 | 96 | 96 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 whiskers | nummod |
| 8 | whiskers | whisker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 legs | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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