Test 3 · ★★★ · Unusual pets: stick insects, giant snails, ant farms and h…
In A Bug's Life the ants walk on two legs and use two arms like people. Count them: how many legs does each real ant have, and how many would 4 real ants have?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: ants, you, many legs, real ant, many · What happens: walk, use, count, do, have · To what, where: Life, two arms, arms, real ant
This is test 3 · ★★★ 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: In A Bug's Life the ants walk on two legs and use two arms like people.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 5 Life | case |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 Bug | det |
| 3 | Bug | Bug | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Life | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 Bug | case |
| 5 | Life | Life | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 walk | obl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ants | det |
| 7 | ants | ant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 walk | nsubj |
| 8 | walk | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 legs | case |
| 10 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 legs | nummod |
| 11 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 walk | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 use | cc |
| 13 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 walk | conj |
| 14 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 arms | nummod |
| 15 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 use | obj |
| 16 | like | like | ADP | _ | 17 people | case |
| 17 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 arms | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 walk | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | present | the ants | a Bug's Life | on two legs | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in life=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | use | infinitive | the ants not said here | two arms | like people | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Patient |
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 legs does each real ant have, and how many would 4 real ants have?
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 does | punct |
| 4 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 many | advmod |
| 5 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 legs | amod |
| 6 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 does | nsubj |
| 7 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Count | parataxis |
| 8 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 ant | det |
| 9 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 ant | amod |
| 10 | ant | ant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 does | obj |
| 11 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 ant | acl:relcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 have | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 have | cc |
| 14 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 many | advmod |
| 15 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 have | nsubj |
| 16 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 have | aux |
| 17 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 19 ants | nummod |
| 18 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 ants | amod |
| 19 | ants | ant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 have | nsubj |
| 20 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Count | parataxis |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Count | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | count | imperative | you not said here | arms = arm | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 2 | do | present | many legs | each real ant | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ant=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | have | present | each real ant not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | have | would | many | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
6 each, so 24
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 1 6 | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 24 | punct |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 24 | advmod |
| 5 | 24 | 24 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 6 | parataxis |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
8 each, so 32 in all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 1 8 | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 32 | punct |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 32 | advmod |
| 5 | 32 | 32 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 8 | conj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 all | case |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 32 | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
4 each, so 16 in all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 1 4 | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 16 | punct |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 16 | advmod |
| 5 | 16 | 16 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 4 | conj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 all | case |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 16 | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Only 2 each, so 8
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 2 2 | advmod |
| 2 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 3 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 2 | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 8 | punct |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 8 | advmod |
| 6 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 2 | flat |
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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