Test 3 · ★★ · Falcons, hawks, kites, ospreys and vultures
In The Jungle Book four vultures sit on a dead tree and chat. Count them: how many wings and how many talons on all their feet?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: four vultures, you · What happens: sit, count · To what, where: Jungle Book, vultures
This is test 3 · ★★ of lesson 324 «Falcons, hawks, kites, ospreys and vultures» 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: In The Jungle Book four vultures sit on a dead tree and chat.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 Book | case |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Book | det |
| 3 | Jungle | Jungle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Book | compound |
| 4 | Book | Book | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 sit | obl |
| 5 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 vultures | nummod |
| 6 | vultures | vulture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 sit | nsubj |
| 7 | sit | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 tree | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 tree | det |
| 10 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 tree | amod |
| 11 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sit | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 chat | cc |
| 13 | chat | chat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tree | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 sit | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | present | four vultures | the Jungle Book | on a dead tree and chat | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in book=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: Count them: how many wings and how many talons on all their feet?
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 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 many | advmod |
| 5 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 wings | amod |
| 6 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Count | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 talons | cc |
| 8 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 many | advmod |
| 9 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 talons | amod |
| 10 | talons | talon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 wings | conj |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 feet | case |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 feet | det:predet |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 feet | nmod:poss |
| 14 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 talons | nmod |
| 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 | vultures = vulture | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
8 wings and 32 talons
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 wings | nummod |
| 2 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 talons | cc |
| 4 | 32 | 32 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 talons | nummod |
| 5 | talons | talon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 wings | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
8 wings and 40 talons
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 wings | nummod |
| 2 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 talons | cc |
| 4 | 40 | 40 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 talons | nummod |
| 5 | talons | talon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 wings | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
8 wings and 16 talons
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 wings | nummod |
| 2 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 talons | cc |
| 4 | 16 | 16 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 talons | nummod |
| 5 | talons | talon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 wings | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
4 wings and 16 talons
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 wings | nummod |
| 2 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 talons | cc |
| 4 | 16 | 16 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 talons | nummod |
| 5 | talons | talon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 wings | 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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