Test 2 · ★ · Rodents: the biggest group of mammals and their ever-growi…
Count them: a hamster, a rat and a squirrel smile at you. How many front gnawing teeth do they have together?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, many front gnawing teeth · What happens: count, gnaw, have · To what, where: them
This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 316 «Rodents: the biggest group of mammals and their ever-growing teeth» 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 hamster, a rat and a squirrel smile at you.
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 | _ | 5 hamster | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 hamster | det |
| 5 | hamster | hamster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Count | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 rat | punct |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 rat | det |
| 8 | rat | rat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hamster | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 smile | cc |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 smile | det |
| 11 | squirrel | squirrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 smile | compound |
| 12 | smile | smile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hamster | conj |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 you | case |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 smile | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | 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 | a hamster and a rat and a squirrel smile at you obl | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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 front gnawing teeth 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 | 5 teeth | amod |
| 3 | front | front | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 teeth | amod |
| 4 | gnawing | gnaw | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 teeth | amod |
| 5 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 have | nsubj |
| 6 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 have | aux |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 have | nsubj |
| 8 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | together | together | ADV | _ | 8 have | advmod |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 have | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gnaw | gerund | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | have | present · do-support | many front gnawing teeth | together property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
24
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 24 | 24 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
48
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 48 | 48 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
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.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
12
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 12 | 12 | 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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