Test 3 · ★ · Whales by kind, the toothed whales: sperm whale, orca, bel…
Count them: 2 sperm whales and 3 belugas surface. All are toothed whales. How many blowholes do you see?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, many blowholes · What happens: count, be, see · To what, where: them, toothed whales
This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 313 «Whales by kind, the toothed whales: sperm whale, orca, beluga and beaked whales» 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: 2 sperm whales and 3 belugas surface.
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 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 whales | nummod |
| 5 | sperm | sperm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 whales | compound |
| 6 | whales | whale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Count | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 surface | cc |
| 8 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 belugas | nummod |
| 9 | belugas | beluga | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 surface | compound |
| 10 | surface | surface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 whales | conj |
| 11 | . | . | 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 | tree rules |
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: All are toothed whales.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 whales | det |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 whales | cop |
| 3 | toothed | toothed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 whales | amod |
| 4 | whales | whale | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 whales | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | all toothed whales | tree rules |
Sentence 3: How many blowholes do you see?
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 | 6 see | nsubj |
| 4 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 see | aux |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 see | nsubj |
| 6 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 see | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present · do-support | many blowholes | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
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
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 4
7
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 7 | 7 | 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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