Test 1 · ★★ · Frogs and toads near home: spawn, croaking choruses, toad…
Count them: a frog laid 1,000 eggs and only 5 grew into frogs. How many did not make it?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, frog, 5, many · What happens: count, lay, grow, not make · To what, where: them, 1,000 eggs, frog
This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 309 «Frogs and toads near home: spawn, croaking choruses, toad crossings and the fire-bellied toad» 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 frog laid 1,000 eggs and only 5 grew into frogs.
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 laid | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 frog | det |
| 5 | frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 laid | nsubj |
| 6 | laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Count | parataxis |
| 7 | 1,000 | 1000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 eggs | nummod |
| 8 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 laid | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 grew | cc |
| 10 | only | only | ADV | _ | 11 5 | advmod |
| 11 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 grew | nsubj |
| 12 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 laid | conj |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 frogs | case |
| 14 | frogs | frog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 grew | obl |
| 15 | . | . | 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 | lay | participle | a frog | 1,000 eggs | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result | ||||
| 3 | grow | past | 5 | into frogs result | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into frog=Result |
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 did not make it?
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 | 5 make | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 make | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 make | advmod |
| 5 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 make | obj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 make | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not make | past · do-support | many | frog | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
1,005
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,005 | 1,005 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
905
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 905 | 905 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
500
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 500 | 500 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
995
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 995 | 995 | 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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