Test 3 · Bees beyond the hive: bumblebees, solitary bees, carpenter…
Count them: 2 bumblebees and 3 mason bees sit on a wall. How many legs is that altogether?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, 2 bumblebees · What happens: count, sit · To what, where: them, wall
This is test 3 of lesson 305 «Bees beyond the hive: bumblebees, solitary bees, carpenter bees and stingless bees» 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: 2 bumblebees and 3 mason bees sit on a wall.
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 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 bumblebees | nummod |
| 5 | bumblebees | bumblebee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 sit | nsubj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 bees | cc |
| 7 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 mason | nummod |
| 8 | mason | mason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bees | compound |
| 9 | bees | bee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 bumblebees | conj |
| 10 | sit | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Count | parataxis |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 wall | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 wall | det |
| 13 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sit | 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 | sit | present | 2 bumblebees and mason bees | a wall | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on wall=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 is that altogether?
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 | 6 altogether | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 altogether | cop |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 altogether | mark |
| 6 | altogether | altogether | DET | PronType=Ind | root | root |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 altogether | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
20
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
30
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 30 | 30 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
40
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 40 | 40 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
15
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 15 | 15 | 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.
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