Test 2 · ★★★ · Unusual pets: stick insects, giant snails, ant farms and h…
Count them: 3 hermit crabs in a tank. How many legs really, and how many are easy to see?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, many legs · What happens: count, be, see · To what, where: them
This is test 2 · ★★★ of lesson 330 «Unusual pets: stick insects, giant snails, ant farms and hermit crabs» 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 hermit crabs in a tank.
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 | 6 crabs | nummod |
| 5 | hermit | hermit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 crabs | compound |
| 6 | crabs | crab | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Count | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 tank | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 tank | det |
| 9 | tank | tank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 crabs | nmod |
| 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 | tree rules |
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 legs really, and how many are easy to 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 | 3 legs | amod |
| 3 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 easy | nsubj |
| 4 | really | really | ADV | _ | 10 easy | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 easy | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 easy | cc |
| 7 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 many | advmod |
| 8 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 easy | nsubj |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 easy | cop |
| 10 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 see | mark |
| 12 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 easy | xcomp |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 easy | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | many legs | easy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | many legs not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
18 legs, with 18 easy to see
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 18 | 18 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 legs | nummod |
| 2 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 easy | punct |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 easy | case |
| 5 | 18 | 18 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 easy | nummod |
| 6 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 legs | conj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 see | mark |
| 8 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 easy | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | to-infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 2
30 legs, with 30 easy to see
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 30 | 30 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 legs | nummod |
| 2 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 easy | punct |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 easy | case |
| 5 | 30 | 30 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 easy | nummod |
| 6 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 legs | conj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 see | mark |
| 8 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 easy | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | to-infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 3
24 legs, with 18 easy to see
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 24 | 24 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 legs | nummod |
| 2 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 easy | punct |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 easy | case |
| 5 | 18 | 18 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 easy | nummod |
| 6 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 legs | conj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 see | mark |
| 8 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 easy | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | to-infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
30 legs, with 18 easy to see
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 30 | 30 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 legs | nummod |
| 2 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 easy | punct |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 easy | case |
| 5 | 18 | 18 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 easy | nummod |
| 6 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 legs | conj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 see | mark |
| 8 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 easy | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | to-infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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