Test 2 · ★ · Sharks by kind, small and strange: walking sharks, wobbego…
Count them: 3 epaulette sharks walk across a reef using their paired fins as legs. How many fin-legs are moving?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, 3 epaulette sharks, many fin legs · What happens: count, walk, use, pair, move · To what, where: them, reef, paired fins
This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 311 «Sharks by kind, small and strange: walking sharks, wobbegongs, cookiecutters and goblin sharks» 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: 3 epaulette sharks walk across a reef using their paired fins as legs.
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 | _ | 1 Count | punct |
| 4 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 sharks | nummod |
| 5 | epaulette | epaulette | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sharks | compound |
| 6 | sharks | shark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 walk | nsubj |
| 7 | walk | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Count | parataxis |
| 8 | across | across | ADP | _ | 10 reef | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 reef | det |
| 10 | reef | reef | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 walk | obl |
| 11 | using | use | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 walk | advcl |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 fins | nmod:poss |
| 13 | paired | pair | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 fins | amod |
| 14 | fins | fin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 using | obj |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 legs | case |
| 16 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 using | 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 | walk | present | 3 epaulette sharks | a reef | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across reef=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | use | gerund | 3 epaulette sharks not said here | sharks's paired fins | as legs | vn spend_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent fin=Duration as leg=Attribute | |||
| 4 | pair | participle | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
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 fin-legs are moving?
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 legs | amod |
| 3 | fin | fin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 legs | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 fin | punct |
| 5 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 moving | nsubj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 moving | aux |
| 7 | moving | move | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 moving | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | present · progressive | many fin legs | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
9
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 9 | 9 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
3
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
12
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 12 | 12 | 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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