Test 9 · ★★ · The garden in autumn: colours, conkers, webs and buried nuts
An apple has five seed chambers with up to two seeds in each. What is the most seeds it might have?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: apple, seeds · What happens: have, be · To what, where: five seed chambers, seeds
This is test 9 · ★★ 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: An apple has five seed chambers with up to two seeds in each.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 apple | det |
| 2 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 chambers | nummod |
| 5 | seed | seed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 chambers | compound |
| 6 | chambers | chamber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 has | obj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 seeds | case |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 seeds | case |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 seeds | case |
| 10 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 seeds | nummod |
| 11 | seeds | seed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 chambers | nmod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 each | case |
| 13 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 seeds | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | a apple | five seed chambers | with two seeds in each | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chamber=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: What is the most seeds it might have?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 seeds | det |
| 4 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 5 seeds | advmod |
| 5 | seeds | seed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 What | nsubj |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 have | nsubj |
| 7 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 have | aux |
| 8 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 seeds | acl:relcl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the seeds | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | have | might | apple | the seeds not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seed=Patient |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
25
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 25 | 25 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
10
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
5
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
7
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 7 | 7 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
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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