Test 2 · ★ · Big snakes: pythons, boas and anacondas, and how big they…
Count them: a museum has 3 python skeletons. How many legs and how many little leg spurs?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, museum · What happens: count, have · To what, where: them, 3 python skeletons
This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 321 «Big snakes: pythons, boas and anacondas, and how big they really get» 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 museum has 3 python skeletons.
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 has | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 museum | det |
| 5 | museum | museum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 has | nsubj |
| 6 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Count | parataxis |
| 7 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 skeletons | nummod |
| 8 | python | python | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 skeletons | compound |
| 9 | skeletons | skeleton | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 has | obj |
| 10 | . | . | 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 | have | present | a museum | 3 python skeletons | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skeleton=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 legs and how many little leg spurs?
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 legs | amod |
| 3 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 spurs | cc |
| 5 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 many | advmod |
| 6 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 spurs | amod |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 spurs | amod |
| 8 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 spurs | compound |
| 9 | spurs | spur | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 legs | conj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 legs | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
6 legs and 6 spurs
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 legs | nummod |
| 2 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 spurs | cc |
| 4 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 spurs | nummod |
| 5 | spurs | spur | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 legs | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
No legs, but 6 spurs
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 legs | det |
| 2 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 spurs | punct |
| 4 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 spurs | cc |
| 5 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 spurs | nummod |
| 6 | spurs | spur | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 legs | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
No legs and no spurs
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 legs | det |
| 2 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 spurs | cc |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 spurs | det |
| 5 | spurs | spur | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 legs | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
12 legs and no spurs
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 legs | nummod |
| 2 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 spurs | cc |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 spurs | det |
| 5 | spurs | spur | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 legs | conj |
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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