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Test 3 · ★ · Big snakes: pythons, boas and anacondas, and how big they…

Count them: a python has 300 backbones and almost every one has two ribs. About how many ribs is that?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, python, one, that · What happens: count, have, be · To what, where: them, 300 backbones, two ribs

This is test 3 · ★ 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 python has 300 backbones and almost every one has two ribs.

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 python	det
5	python	python	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 has	nsubj
6	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Count	parataxis
7	300	300	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 backbones	nummod
8	backbones	backbone	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 has	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 has	cc
10	almost	almost	ADV	_	13 has	advmod
11	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	12 one	det
12	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 has	nsubj
13	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 has	conj
14	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 ribs	nummod
15	ribs	rib	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 has	obj
16	.	.	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 python	300 backbones					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent backbone=Patient
3	have	present	every one	two ribs				almost property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rib=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: About how many ribs is that?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	About	about	ADP	_	4 ribs	case
2	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	3 many	advmod
3	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 ribs	amod
4	ribs	rib	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 is	obl
5	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 is	nsubj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 is	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	present	that					about many ribs	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about rib=Location

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Only about 150

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 150	advmod
2	about	about	ADV	_	3 150	advmod
3	150	150	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Only about 300

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 300	advmod
2	about	about	ADV	_	3 300	advmod
3	300	300	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

About 600

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	About	about	ADV	_	2 600	advmod
2	600	600	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Only about 33

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 33	advmod
2	about	about	ADV	_	3 33	advmod
3	33	33	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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