Test 2 · ★★ · Frogs and toads near home: spawn, croaking choruses, toad…
Count them: a volunteer carries 3 buckets with 4 toads in each across the road. How many toads, and how many legs?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, volunteer · What happens: count, carry · To what, where: them, 3 buckets, each
This is test 2 · ★★ 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 volunteer carries 3 buckets with 4 toads in each across the road.
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 carries | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 volunteer | det |
| 5 | volunteer | volunteer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 carries | nsubj |
| 6 | carries | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Count | parataxis |
| 7 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 buckets | nummod |
| 8 | buckets | bucket | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 carries | obj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 toads | case |
| 10 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 toads | nummod |
| 11 | toads | toad | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 carries | obl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 each | case |
| 13 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 carries | obl |
| 14 | across | across | ADP | _ | 16 road | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 road | det |
| 16 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 carries | obl |
| 17 | . | . | 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 | carry | present | a volunteer | 3 buckets | each | with 4 toads; across the road | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent bucket=Value in each=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 toads, and how many legs?
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 toads | amod |
| 3 | toads | toad | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 legs | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 legs | cc |
| 6 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 many | advmod |
| 7 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 legs | amod |
| 8 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 toads | conj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 toads | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
12 toads and 48 legs
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 toads | nummod |
| 2 | toads | toad | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 legs | cc |
| 4 | 48 | 48 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 legs | nummod |
| 5 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 toads | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
12 toads and 24 legs
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 toads | nummod |
| 2 | toads | toad | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 legs | cc |
| 4 | 24 | 24 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 legs | nummod |
| 5 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 toads | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
7 toads and 28 legs
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 7 | 7 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 toads | nummod |
| 2 | toads | toad | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 legs | cc |
| 4 | 28 | 28 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 legs | nummod |
| 5 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 toads | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
12 toads and 72 legs
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 toads | nummod |
| 2 | toads | toad | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 legs | cc |
| 4 | 72 | 72 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 legs | nummod |
| 5 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 toads | 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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