Test 3 · Frogs of the world: tree frogs, glass frogs, flying frogs…
Count them: a Wallace's flying frog uses each of its webbed feet as a parachute. How many parachutes?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, flying frog · What happens: count, fly, use, web · To what, where: them, each
This is test 3 of lesson 308 «Frogs of the world: tree frogs, glass frogs, flying frogs and the goliath frog» 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 Wallace's flying frog uses each of its webbed feet as a parachute.
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 | _ | 9 uses | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 Wallace | det |
| 5 | Wallace | Wallace | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 frog | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 Wallace | case |
| 7 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 frog | amod |
| 8 | frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 uses | nsubj |
| 9 | uses | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Count | parataxis |
| 10 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 uses | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 feet | case |
| 12 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 feet | nmod:poss |
| 13 | webbed | web | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 feet | amod |
| 14 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 each | nmod |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 parachute | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 parachute | det |
| 17 | parachute | parachute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 uses | obl |
| 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 | fly | gerund | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | use | present | a Wallace's flying frog | each | as a parachute | vn spend_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent each=Duration as parachute=Attribute | |||
| 4 | web | participle | 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: How many parachutes?
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 parachutes | amod |
| 3 | parachutes | parachute | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 parachutes | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
2
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
4
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
8
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
6
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6 | 6 | 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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