Test 4 · ★ · Big snakes: pythons, boas and anacondas, and how big they…
Count them: 4 anacondas lie in a river. How many outer ears can you see?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, 4 anacondas, many outer ears · What happens: count, lie, see · To what, where: them, river
This is test 4 · ★ 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: 4 anacondas lie in a river.
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 | _ | 1 Count | punct |
| 4 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 anacondas | nummod |
| 5 | anacondas | anaconda | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 lie | nsubj |
| 6 | lie | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Count | parataxis |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 river | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 river | det |
| 9 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lie | obl |
| 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 | lie | present | 4 anacondas | a river | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in river=Location |
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 outer ears can you see?
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 | 4 ears | amod |
| 3 | outer | outer | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 ears | amod |
| 4 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 see | nsubj |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 see | aux |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 see | nsubj |
| 7 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 see | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | can | many outer ears | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
The options
Option 1
16, four each
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 16 | 16 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 four | punct |
| 3 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 1 16 | conj |
| 4 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 1 16 | nmod:unmarked |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
8, two on each head
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 two | punct |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 1 8 | conj |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 head | case |
| 5 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 head | det |
| 6 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 two | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
None, snakes have no outer ears
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | None | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 3 snakes | compound |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 None | punct |
| 3 | snakes | snake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 have | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 ears | det |
| 6 | outer | outer | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 ears | amod |
| 7 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 have | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | None snakes | no outer ears | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Patient |
Option 4
4, one each
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 one | punct |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 1 4 | nmod |
| 4 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 one | nmod:unmarked |
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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