Test 1 · Whales by kind, the baleen whales: blue, fin, humpback, gr…
Count them: a whale-watching boat sees 3 humpbacks and 2 sperm whales blow at once. Sperm whales have one blowhole. How many blowholes are open?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, watching boat, 2 sperm whales, Sperm whales, many blowholes · What happens: count, watch, see, blow, have, be · To what, where: them, 3 humpbacks, one blowhole
This is test 1 of lesson 312 «Whales by kind, the baleen whales: blue, fin, humpback, grey, right and minke» 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 whale-watching boat sees 3 humpbacks and 2 sperm whales blow at once.
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 | _ | 9 sees | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 boat | det |
| 5 | whale | whale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 watching | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 whale | punct |
| 7 | watching | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 boat | amod |
| 8 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sees | nsubj |
| 9 | sees | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Count | parataxis |
| 10 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 humpbacks | nummod |
| 11 | humpbacks | humpback | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 sees | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 blow | cc |
| 13 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 whales | nummod |
| 14 | sperm | sperm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 whales | compound |
| 15 | whales | whale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 blow | nsubj |
| 16 | blow | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 sees | conj |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 once | case |
| 18 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 16 blow | obl |
| 19 | . | . | 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 | watch | gerund | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | see | present | a watching boat | 3 humpbacks | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer humpback=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | blow | present | 2 sperm whales | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: 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: Sperm whales have one blowhole.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sperm | sperm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 whales | compound |
| 2 | whales | whale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 blowhole | nummod |
| 5 | blowhole | blowhole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 have | obj |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Sperm whales | one blowhole | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blowhole=Patient |
Sentence 3: How many blowholes are open?
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 blowholes | amod |
| 3 | blowholes | blowhole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 open | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 open | cop |
| 5 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 open | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | many blowholes | open property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
5
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
10
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
8
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 8 | 8 | 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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