Test 3 · ★ · Ants of the world: weaver ants, bullet ants, honeypot ants…
Count them: a nest has 3 weaver ants pulling a leaf and 4 more holding larvae. How many ants is that, and how many feelers?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, nest, 3 weaver ants · What happens: count, have, pull, hold, be · To what, where: them, 3 weaver ants, leaf, that
This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 304 «Ants of the world: weaver ants, bullet ants, honeypot ants and trap-jaw ants» 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 nest has 3 weaver ants pulling a leaf and 4 more holding larvae.
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 | _ | 6 has | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 nest | det |
| 5 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 has | nsubj |
| 6 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Count | parataxis |
| 7 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 ants | nummod |
| 8 | weaver | weaver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ants | compound |
| 9 | ants | ant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 has | obj |
| 10 | pulling | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 ants | acl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 leaf | det |
| 12 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pulling | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 larvae | cc |
| 14 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 more | nummod |
| 15 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 larvae | amod |
| 16 | holding | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 larvae | amod |
| 17 | larvae | larva | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 ants | conj |
| 18 | . | . | 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 | have | present | a nest | 3 weaver ants and more holding larvae | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ant=Patient | ||||
| 3 | pull | gerund | 3 weaver ants and more holding larvae not said here | a leaf | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Theme | ||||
| 4 | hold | gerund | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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 ants is that, and how many feelers?
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 ants | amod |
| 3 | ants | ant | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 that | cop |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 ants | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 feelers | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 feelers | cc |
| 8 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 many | advmod |
| 9 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 feelers | amod |
| 10 | feelers | feeler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 ants | conj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 ants | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | that | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
7 ants and 14 feelers
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 7 | 7 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 ants | nummod |
| 2 | ants | ant | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 feelers | cc |
| 4 | 14 | 14 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 feelers | nummod |
| 5 | feelers | feeler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 ants | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
12 ants and 24 feelers
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 ants | nummod |
| 2 | ants | ant | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 feelers | cc |
| 4 | 24 | 24 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 feelers | nummod |
| 5 | feelers | feeler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 ants | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
7 ants and 7 feelers
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 7 | 7 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 ants | nummod |
| 2 | ants | ant | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 feelers | cc |
| 4 | 7 | 7 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 feelers | nummod |
| 5 | feelers | feeler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 ants | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
7 ants and 28 feelers
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 7 | 7 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 ants | nummod |
| 2 | ants | ant | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 feelers | cc |
| 4 | 28 | 28 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 feelers | nummod |
| 5 | feelers | feeler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 ants | 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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