Test 2 · Whales by kind, the baleen whales: blue, fin, humpback, gr…
Count them: 4 blue whales swim past. How many flippers and how many back legs do they have together?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, 4 blue whales, many flippers · What happens: count, swim, have · To what, where: them
This is test 2 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: 4 blue whales swim past.
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 | _ | 7 swim | punct |
| 4 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 whales | nummod |
| 5 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 whales | amod |
| 6 | whales | whale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 swim | nsubj |
| 7 | swim | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Count | conj |
| 8 | past | past | ADV | _ | 7 swim | advmod |
| 9 | . | . | 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 | swim | present | 4 blue whales | past property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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 flippers and how many back legs do they have together?
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 flippers | amod |
| 3 | flippers | flipper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 have | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 legs | cc |
| 5 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 many | advmod |
| 6 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 legs | amod |
| 7 | back | back | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 legs | amod |
| 8 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 flippers | conj |
| 9 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 have | aux |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 have | nsubj |
| 11 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | together | together | ADV | _ | 11 have | advmod |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 have | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present · do-support | many flippers and many back legs | together property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
8 flippers and no back legs
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 flippers | nummod |
| 2 | flippers | flipper | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 legs | cc |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 legs | det |
| 5 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 legs | compound |
| 6 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 flippers | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
4 flippers and 4 back legs
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 flippers | nummod |
| 2 | flippers | flipper | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 legs | cc |
| 4 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 legs | nummod |
| 5 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 legs | compound |
| 6 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 flippers | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
8 flippers and 8 back legs
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 flippers | nummod |
| 2 | flippers | flipper | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 legs | cc |
| 4 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 legs | nummod |
| 5 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 legs | compound |
| 6 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 flippers | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
16 flippers and no back legs
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 16 | 16 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 flippers | nummod |
| 2 | flippers | flipper | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 legs | cc |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 legs | det |
| 5 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 legs | compound |
| 6 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 flippers | 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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