Test 6 · ★★ · Bats near home: pipistrelles, noctules, bat boxes and why…
Count them: 6 pipistrelles each weigh about 5 grams. About how much do they weigh together?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, 6 pipistrelles, pipistrelles · What happens: count, weigh · To what, where: them, 5 grams
This is test 6 · ★★ of lesson 315 «Bats near home: pipistrelles, noctules, bat boxes and why never to pick one up» 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: 6 pipistrelles each weigh about 5 grams.
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 weigh | punct |
| 4 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 pipistrelles | nummod |
| 5 | pipistrelles | pipistrelle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 weigh | nsubj |
| 6 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 weigh | advmod |
| 7 | weigh | weigh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Count | parataxis |
| 8 | about | about | ADV | _ | 9 5 | advmod |
| 9 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 grams | nummod |
| 10 | grams | gram | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 weigh | obj |
| 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 | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 2 | weigh | present | 6 pipistrelles | 5 grams | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme gram=Value |
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 much do they weigh together?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | SCONJ | _ | 4 do | mark |
| 2 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 much | advmod |
| 3 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 do | obj |
| 4 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 weigh | aux |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 weigh | nsubj |
| 6 | weigh | weigh | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | together | together | ADV | _ | 6 weigh | advmod |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 weigh | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weigh | present · do-support | pipistrelles = pipistrelle | together property | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
About 3 grams
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 3 | advmod |
| 2 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 grams | nummod |
| 3 | grams | gram | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
About 11 grams
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 11 | advmod |
| 2 | 11 | 11 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 grams | nummod |
| 3 | grams | gram | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
About 300 grams
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 300 | advmod |
| 2 | 300 | 300 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 grams | nummod |
| 3 | grams | gram | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
About 30 grams
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 30 | advmod |
| 2 | 30 | 30 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 grams | nummod |
| 3 | grams | gram | NOUN | Number=Plur | 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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