Test 2 · ★★ · Old pets: grey muzzles, slow walks and saying goodbye
Count them: an old cat had 30 teeth and the vet took out 4. How many are left?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, old cat, vet · What happens: count, have, take out, leave · To what, where: them, 30 teeth, 4, many
This is test 2 · ★★ of lesson 328 «Old pets: grey muzzles, slow walks and saying goodbye» 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: an old cat had 30 teeth and the vet took out 4.
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 | _ | 7 had | punct |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 cat | det |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 cat | amod |
| 6 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 had | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Count | parataxis |
| 8 | 30 | 30 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 teeth | nummod |
| 9 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 had | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 took | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 vet | det |
| 12 | vet | vet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 took | nsubj |
| 13 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 had | conj |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 took | compound:prt |
| 15 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 took | 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 | past | a old cat | 30 teeth | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient | ||||
| 3 | take out | past | the vet | 4 | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 4=Theme |
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 are left?
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 left | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 left | aux:pass |
| 4 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 left | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | present · passive | many | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
26
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 26 | 26 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
24
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 24 | 24 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
34
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 34 | 34 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
30
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 30 | 30 | 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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