Test 3 · ★★ · Frogs and toads near home: spawn, croaking choruses, toad…
Count them: «the toad tunnel saved 9, no wait, 11 toads on Tuesday, and 6 on Wednesday». How many on the two days?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, toad tunnel · What happens: count, save · To what, where: them, 9 · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 3 · ★★ 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: «the toad tunnel saved 9, no wait, 11 toads on Tuesday, and 6 on Wednesday».
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 | _ | 8 saved | punct |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 8 saved | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 tunnel | det |
| 6 | toad | toad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tunnel | compound |
| 7 | tunnel | tunnel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 saved | nsubj |
| 8 | saved | save | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Count | parataxis |
| 9 | 9 | 9 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 saved | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 wait | punct |
| 11 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 12 wait | det |
| 12 | wait | wait | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 saved | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 toads | punct |
| 14 | 11 | 11 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 toads | nummod |
| 15 | toads | toad | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 wait | appos |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 Tuesday | case |
| 17 | Tuesday | Tuesday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 toads | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 6 | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 6 | cc |
| 20 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 saved | obl |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 Wednesday | case |
| 22 | Wednesday | Wednesday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 6 | nmod |
| 23 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 8 saved | punct |
| 24 | . | . | 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 characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent they=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | save in a quote | past | the toad tunnel | 9 | 6 on Wednesday obl | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent 9=Beneficiary wait=Theme |
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 on the two days?
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 | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 days | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 days | det |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 days | nummod |
| 6 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 many | nmod |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 many | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
26
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 26 | 26 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
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 3
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.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
17
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 17 | 17 | 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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