Test 10 · ★★ · Beetles: the biggest group of animals on Earth, wing cases…
Three featherwing beetles in a row are about 1 millimetre long. About how many would fit in a line 1 centimetre long?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Three featherwing beetles, many · What happens: be, fit · To what, where: line centimetre
This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 306 «Beetles: the biggest group of animals on Earth, wing cases and six legs» 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: Three featherwing beetles in a row are about 1 millimetre long.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 beetles | nummod |
| 2 | featherwing | featherwing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 beetles | compound |
| 3 | beetles | beetle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 long | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 row | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 row | det |
| 6 | row | row | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 beetles | nmod |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 long | cop |
| 8 | about | about | ADV | _ | 9 1 | advmod |
| 9 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 millimetre | nummod |
| 10 | millimetre | millimetre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 long | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 long | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Three featherwing beetles in a row | 1 millimetre obl:unmarked; long property | tree rules |
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: About how many would fit in a line 1 centimetre long?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | SCONJ | _ | 5 fit | mark |
| 2 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 many | advmod |
| 3 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 fit | nsubj |
| 4 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 fit | aux |
| 5 | fit | fit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 centimetre | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 centimetre | det |
| 8 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 centimetre | compound |
| 9 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 line | flat |
| 10 | centimetre | centimetre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fit | obl |
| 11 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 centimetre | amod |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 fit | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fit | would | many | a line centimetre | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent in centimetre=Trajectory |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
About 10
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 10 | advmod |
| 2 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
About 300
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 300 | advmod |
| 2 | 300 | 300 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
About 30
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 30 | advmod |
| 2 | 30 | 30 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
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.
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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