Test 5 · Owls of the world: barn owls, eagle owls, elf owls and bur…
About how many 40-gram elf owls would weigh as much as one 3-kilogram eagle owl?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: many elf owls · What happens: weigh · To what, where: much
This is test 5 of lesson 301 «Owls of the world: barn owls, eagle owls, elf owls and burrowing owls» 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 | About | about | SCONJ | _ | 8 weigh | mark |
| 2 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 many | advmod |
| 3 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 owls | amod |
| 4 | 40-gram | 40-gram | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 elf | nummod |
| 5 | elf | elf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 owls | compound |
| 6 | owls | owl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 weigh | nsubj |
| 7 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 weigh | aux |
| 8 | weigh | weigh | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | as | as | ADV | _ | 10 much | advmod |
| 10 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 weigh | obj |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 owl | case |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 owl | nummod |
| 13 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 one | nmod |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 3 | punct |
| 15 | kilogram | kilogram | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 eagle | compound |
| 16 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 owl | compound |
| 17 | owl | owl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 weigh | obl |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 weigh | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weigh | would | many elf owls | much | as one eagle owl | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme much=Value |
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
About 7
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 7 | advmod |
| 2 | 7 | 7 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
About 3
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 3 | advmod |
| 2 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
About 750
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 750 | advmod |
| 2 | 750 | 750 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
About 75
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 75 | advmod |
| 2 | 75 | 75 | 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/301-owls-of-the-world-barn-owls-eagle-owls-elf-owls-and-burrowing-owls/t5/