Test 5 · Bats of the world: flying foxes, vampire bats, the bumbleb…
Count it: a bumblebee bat weighs about 2 grams and a big flying fox about 1 kilogram. About how many bumblebee bats weigh the same as one flying fox?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, bumblebee bat, many bumblebee bats · What happens: count, weigh, fly · To what, where: it, 2 grams, same
This is test 5 of lesson 314 «Bats of the world: flying foxes, vampire bats, the bumblebee bat and tent-makers» 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 it: a bumblebee bat weighs about 2 grams and a big flying fox about 1 kilogram.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Count | count | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Count | obj |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 weighs | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 bat | det |
| 5 | bumblebee | bumblebee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bat | compound |
| 6 | bat | bat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 weighs | nsubj |
| 7 | weighs | weigh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Count | parataxis |
| 8 | about | about | ADV | _ | 9 2 | advmod |
| 9 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 grams | nummod |
| 10 | grams | gram | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 weighs | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 fox | cc |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 fox | det |
| 13 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 fox | amod |
| 14 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 fox | amod |
| 15 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 grams | conj |
| 16 | about | about | ADV | _ | 17 1 | advmod |
| 17 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 18 kilogram | nummod |
| 18 | kilogram | kilogram | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fox | nmod |
| 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 | it | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | weigh | present | a bumblebee bat | 2 grams and a big flying fox 1 kilogram | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme gram=Value | ||||
| 3 | fly | gerund | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «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: About how many bumblebee bats weigh the same as one flying fox?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADP | _ | 5 bats | case |
| 2 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 many | advmod |
| 3 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 bats | amod |
| 4 | bumblebee | bumblebee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bats | compound |
| 5 | bats | bat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 weigh | nsubj |
| 6 | weigh | weigh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 same | det |
| 8 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 weigh | obj |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 fox | case |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 fox | nummod |
| 11 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 fox | amod |
| 12 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 weigh | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 weigh | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weigh | present | many bumblebee bats | the same | as one flying fox | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme same=Value | |||
| 2 | fly | gerund | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
About 5,000
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 5,000 | advmod |
| 2 | 5,000 | 5000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
About 50
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 50 | advmod |
| 2 | 50 | 50 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
About 5
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 5 | advmod |
| 2 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
About 500
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 500 | advmod |
| 2 | 500 | 500 | 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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