Test 3 · ★★ · Animals in the news: true stories, fakes and how to read t…
Count them: a news photo shows 3 orcas next to a boat. How many tails and how many dorsal fins on their backs?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, news photo · What happens: count, show · To what, where: them, 3 orcas, boat
This is test 3 · ★★ of lesson 296 «Animals in the news: true stories, fakes and how to read them» 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 news photo shows 3 orcas next to a boat.
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 shows | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 photo | det |
| 5 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 photo | compound |
| 6 | photo | photo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 shows | nsubj |
| 7 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Count | parataxis |
| 8 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 orcas | nummod |
| 9 | orcas | orca | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 shows | obj |
| 10 | next | next | ADV | _ | 13 boat | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 boat | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 boat | det |
| 13 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 shows | obl |
| 14 | . | . | 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 | show | present | a news photo | 3 orcas | a boat | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent orca=Topic to boat=Recipient |
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 tails and how many dorsal fins on their backs?
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 tails | amod |
| 3 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 fins | cc |
| 5 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 many | advmod |
| 6 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 fins | amod |
| 7 | dorsal | dorsal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 fins | amod |
| 8 | fins | fin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 tails | conj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 backs | case |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 backs | nmod:poss |
| 11 | backs | back | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 fins | nmod |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 tails | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
6 tails and 3 dorsal fins
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 tails | nummod |
| 2 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 fins | cc |
| 4 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 fins | nummod |
| 5 | dorsal | dorsal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 fins | amod |
| 6 | fins | fin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 tails | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
3 tails and 6 dorsal fins
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 tails | nummod |
| 2 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 fins | cc |
| 4 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 fins | nummod |
| 5 | dorsal | dorsal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 fins | amod |
| 6 | fins | fin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 tails | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
3 tails and 12 dorsal fins
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 tails | nummod |
| 2 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 fins | cc |
| 4 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 fins | nummod |
| 5 | dorsal | dorsal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 fins | amod |
| 6 | fins | fin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 tails | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
3 tails and 3 dorsal fins
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 tails | nummod |
| 2 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 fins | cc |
| 4 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 fins | nummod |
| 5 | dorsal | dorsal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 fins | amod |
| 6 | fins | fin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 tails | 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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