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Test 4 · Turtles and tortoises

A hot summer makes the sand on a turtle beach much warmer than usual. What would scientists expect?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: hot summer, scientists · What happens: make, expect · To what, where: sand, turtle beach

This is test 4 of lesson 31 «Turtles and tortoises» 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: A hot summer makes the sand on a turtle beach much warmer than usual.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 summer	det
2	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 summer	amod
3	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 makes	nsubj
4	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sand	det
6	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 makes	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	10 beach	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 beach	det
9	turtle	turtle	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 beach	compound
10	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 makes	obl
11	much	much	ADV	_	12 warmer	advmod
12	warmer	warm	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 makes	parataxis
13	than	than	ADP	_	14 usual	case
14	usual	usual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 warmer	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 makes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	a hot summer	the sand		a turtle beach			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sand=Product

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: What would scientists expect?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 expect	obj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 expect	aux
3	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 expect	nsubj
4	expect	expect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 expect	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	expect	would	scientists						vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

More girl hatchlings than boys

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	More	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 hatchlings	amod
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hatchlings	compound
3	hatchlings	hatchling	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	than	than	ADP	_	5 boys	case
5	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hatchlings	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

All of the babies would be twins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 twins	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 babies	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 babies	det
4	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 All	nmod
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 twins	aux
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 twins	cop
7	twins	twin	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	would	All	twins					tree rules

Option 3

Many more boy hatchlings than girls

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hatchlings	amod
2	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 hatchlings	amod
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hatchlings	compound
4	hatchlings	hatchling	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	than	than	ADP	_	6 girls	case
6	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hatchlings	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

None of the eggs would hatch at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	None	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	6 hatch	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 eggs	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 eggs	det
4	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 None	nmod
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 hatch	aux
6	hatch	hatch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 hatch	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hatch	would	None			all			vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.patient V PP.product»: agent=Patient

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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