Exam question 4 · The big biology quiz, part 1: habitats and animals
State the number of hearts possessed by an octopus, together with the colour of its blood.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: state, possess · To what, where: number, hearts
This is exam question 4 of lesson 298 «The big biology quiz, part 1: habitats and animals» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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 | State | state | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 number | det |
| 3 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 State | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 hearts | case |
| 5 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 number | nmod |
| 6 | possessed | possess | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 hearts | acl |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 octopus | case |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 octopus | det |
| 9 | octopus | octopus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 possessed | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 colour | punct |
| 11 | together | together | ADV | _ | 14 colour | advmod |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 colour | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 colour | det |
| 14 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 State | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 blood | case |
| 16 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 blood | nmod:poss |
| 17 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 colour | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 State | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | state speech: other | imperative | you not said here | the number of hearts | with the colour of colour's blood | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent number=Topic | |||
| 2 | possess | participle | hearts not said here | by a octopus | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
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 · ✓ the right answer
Three hearts and blue blood
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 hearts | nummod |
| 2 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 blood | cc |
| 4 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 blood | amod |
| 5 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hearts | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
One heart and red blood
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 heart | nummod |
| 2 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 blood | cc |
| 4 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 blood | amod |
| 5 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 heart | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Two hearts and green blood
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 hearts | nummod |
| 2 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 blood | cc |
| 4 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 blood | amod |
| 5 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hearts | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Eight hearts and colourless blood
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 hearts | nummod |
| 2 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 blood | cc |
| 4 | colourless | colourless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 blood | amod |
| 5 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hearts | 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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