Test 11 · Lost pets, microchips, holidays and moving house
Count them: at the kennels there are 4 dogs and 2 cats in the cattery next door. How many ears and how many tails are there?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, 4 dogs, many ears · What happens: count, be · To what, where: them, kennels
This is test 11 of lesson 332 «Lost pets, microchips, holidays and moving house» 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: at the kennels there are 4 dogs and 2 cats in the cattery next door.
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 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 kennels | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 kennels | det |
| 6 | kennels | kennel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 are | obl |
| 7 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 8 are | expl |
| 8 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Count | advcl |
| 9 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 dogs | nummod |
| 10 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 are | nsubj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 cats | cc |
| 12 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 cats | nummod |
| 13 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 dogs | conj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 door | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 door | det |
| 16 | cattery | cattery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 door | compound |
| 17 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 door | amod |
| 18 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 dogs | nmod |
| 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 | does | present | 4 dogs in the cattery next door and 2 cats | the kennels; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at kennel=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 ears and how many tails are there?
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 ears | amod |
| 3 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 there | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 tails | cc |
| 5 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 many | advmod |
| 6 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 tails | amod |
| 7 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 ears | conj |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 there | cop |
| 9 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 there | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | many ears and many tails | there property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
12 ears and 6 tails
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 ears | nummod |
| 2 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 tails | cc |
| 4 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 tails | nummod |
| 5 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 ears | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
6 ears and 6 tails
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 ears | nummod |
| 2 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 tails | cc |
| 4 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 tails | nummod |
| 5 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 ears | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
24 ears and 6 tails
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 24 | 24 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 ears | nummod |
| 2 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 tails | cc |
| 4 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 tails | nummod |
| 5 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 ears | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
12 ears and 4 tails
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 ears | nummod |
| 2 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 tails | cc |
| 4 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 tails | nummod |
| 5 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 ears | 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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