Test 3 · A puppy at home: the first weeks
Count them: 3 puppies sit on a rug. How many toes in all, if each has the usual dewclaws on the front legs?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, 3 puppies, each · What happens: count, sit, have · To what, where: them, rug, usual dewclaws, front legs
This is test 3 of lesson 326 «A puppy at home: the first weeks» 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: 3 puppies sit on a rug.
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 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 puppies | nummod |
| 5 | puppies | puppy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 sit | nsubj |
| 6 | sit | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Count | parataxis |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 rug | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 rug | det |
| 9 | rug | rug | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sit | 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 | sit | present | 3 puppies | a rug | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on rug=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 toes in all, if each has the usual dewclaws on the front legs?
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 toes | amod |
| 3 | toes | toe | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 all | case |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 toes | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 has | punct |
| 7 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 has | mark |
| 8 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 has | nsubj |
| 9 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 toes | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 dewclaws | det |
| 11 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 dewclaws | amod |
| 12 | dewclaws | dewclaw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 has | obj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 legs | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 legs | det |
| 15 | front | front | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 legs | amod |
| 16 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 dewclaws | nmod |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 toes | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | each | the usual dewclaws | the front legs | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dewclaw=Patient |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
36
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 36 | 36 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
48
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 48 | 48 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
60
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 60 | 60 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
54
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 54 | 54 | 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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