Test 4 · ★★ · Deer: antlers that fall off and grow again; red deer, roe…
Count them: 4 reindeer pull a sledge, 2 males and 2 females. In summer both sexes grow antlers. How many antlers are there?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, 4 reindeer, sexes, many antlers · What happens: count, pull, grow, be · To what, where: them, sledge, antlers
This is test 4 · ★★ of lesson 318 «Deer: antlers that fall off and grow again; red deer, roe deer, moose, muntjac and water deer» 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: 4 reindeer pull a sledge, 2 males and 2 females.
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 | _ | 6 pull | punct |
| 4 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 reindeer | nummod |
| 5 | reindeer | reindeer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 pull | nsubj |
| 6 | pull | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Count | parataxis |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 sledge | det |
| 8 | sledge | sledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pull | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 males | punct |
| 10 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 males | nummod |
| 11 | males | male | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 sledge | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 females | cc |
| 13 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 females | nummod |
| 14 | females | female | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 males | conj |
| 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 | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 2 | pull | present | 4 reindeer | a sledge and 2 males and 2 females | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sledge=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: In summer both sexes grow antlers.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 summer | case |
| 2 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 grow | obl |
| 3 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 sexes | det |
| 4 | sexes | sex | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 grow | nsubj |
| 5 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | antlers | antler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 grow | obj |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 grow | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | present | both sexes | antlers | summer | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location antler=Theme |
Sentence 3: How many antlers are there?
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 antlers | amod |
| 3 | antlers | antler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 there | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 there | cop |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 there | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | many antlers | there property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
4
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
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 3 · ✓ the right answer
8
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
2
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 2 | 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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