Test 3 · Rodents of every kind: squirrels, marmots, prairie dogs, p…
Count them: a flying squirrel has a skin flap on each side between its front and back legs. How many flaps do 3 flying squirrels have?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, flying squirrel, many flaps, 3 flying squirrels · What happens: count, fly, have, do · To what, where: them, skin flap, side
This is test 3 of lesson 317 «Rodents of every kind: squirrels, marmots, prairie dogs, porcupines, chinchillas and dormice» 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 flying squirrel has a skin flap on each side between its front and back legs.
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 has | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 squirrel | det |
| 5 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 squirrel | amod |
| 6 | squirrel | squirrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 has | nsubj |
| 7 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Count | parataxis |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 flap | det |
| 9 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 flap | compound |
| 10 | flap | flap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 has | obj |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 side | case |
| 12 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 side | det |
| 13 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 flap | nmod |
| 14 | between | between | ADP | _ | 19 legs | case |
| 15 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 legs | nmod:poss |
| 16 | front | front | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 legs | amod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 back | cc |
| 18 | back | back | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 front | conj |
| 19 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 side | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | 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 | fly | gerund | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | have | present | a flying squirrel | a skin flap | each side between squirrel's front legs | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flap=Patient |
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 flaps do 3 flying squirrels have?
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 flaps | amod |
| 3 | flaps | flap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 do | nsubj |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 squirrels | nummod |
| 6 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 squirrels | amod |
| 7 | squirrels | squirrel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 have | nsubj |
| 8 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | ccomp |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | many flaps | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | fly | gerund | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | have | present | 3 flying squirrels | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
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 2
9
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 9 | 9 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
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.
Option 4
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.
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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