Test 8 · ★★ · The garden in autumn: colours, conkers, webs and buried nuts
Count them: 5 swallows sit on the wire and 2 jays perch in the oak. How many tails and how many legs?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, 5 swallows · What happens: count, sit · To what, where: them, wire
This is test 8 · ★★ of lesson 335 «The garden in autumn: colours, conkers, webs and buried nuts» 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: 5 swallows sit on the wire and 2 jays perch in the oak.
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 | _ | 6 sit | punct |
| 4 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 swallows | nummod |
| 5 | swallows | swallow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 sit | nsubj |
| 6 | sit | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Count | parataxis |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 wire | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 wire | det |
| 9 | wire | wire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sit | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 perch | cc |
| 11 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 jays | nummod |
| 12 | jays | jay | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 perch | compound |
| 13 | perch | perch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wire | conj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 oak | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 oak | det |
| 16 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 perch | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | 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 | 5 swallows | the wire and jays perch in the oak | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on wire=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 tails and how many legs?
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 tails | amod |
| 3 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 legs | cc |
| 5 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 many | advmod |
| 6 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 legs | amod |
| 7 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 tails | conj |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 tails | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
7 tails and 14 legs
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 7 | 7 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 tails | nummod |
| 2 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 legs | cc |
| 4 | 14 | 14 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 legs | nummod |
| 5 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 tails | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
7 tails and 7 legs
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 7 | 7 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 tails | nummod |
| 2 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 legs | cc |
| 4 | 7 | 7 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 legs | nummod |
| 5 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 tails | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
7 tails and 28 legs
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 7 | 7 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 tails | nummod |
| 2 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 legs | cc |
| 4 | 28 | 28 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 legs | nummod |
| 5 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 tails | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
2 tails and 14 legs
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 tails | nummod |
| 2 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 legs | cc |
| 4 | 14 | 14 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 legs | nummod |
| 5 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 tails | 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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