Test 3 · Tortoises, lizards and geckos as pets: heat, light and was…

Count them: 2 tortoises and 1 bearded dragon sit in the sun. How many legs and tails?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, 2 tortoises · What happens: count, sit · To what, where: them, many legs, sun.

This is test 3 of lesson 329 «Tortoises, lizards and geckos as pets: heat, light and washing hands» 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

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	_	5 tortoises	punct
4	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 tortoises	nummod
5	tortoises	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 sit	nsubj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 dragon	cc
7	1	1	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 dragon	nummod
8	bearded	bearded	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 dragon	amod
9	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tortoises	conj
10	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Count	parataxis
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 sun.	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sun.	det
13	sun.	sun.	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sit	obl
14	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	15 many	advmod
15	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 legs	amod
16	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 sit	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 tails	cc
18	tails	tail	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 legs	conj
19	?	?	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	2 tortoises and 1 bearded dragon	many legs and tails		the sun.			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent leg=Theme in sun.=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

6 legs and 3 tails

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	6	6	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 legs	nummod
2	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 tails	cc
4	3	3	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 tails	nummod
5	tails	tail	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 legs	conj

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

Option 2

8 legs and 3 tails

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	8	8	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 legs	nummod
2	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 tails	cc
4	3	3	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 tails	nummod
5	tails	tail	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 legs	conj

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

Option 3

12 legs and 1 tail

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	12	12	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 legs	nummod
2	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 tail	cc
4	1	1	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 tail	nummod
5	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 legs	conj

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

12 legs and 3 tails

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	12	12	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 legs	nummod
2	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 tails	cc
4	3	3	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 tails	nummod
5	tails	tail	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 legs	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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