Test 10 · ★★ · The garden in winter: bare trees, tracks in the snow and w…
Count them: each cat paw print in the snow shows 4 toes. How many toe marks do all 4 paws of one cat leave?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, paw print, many toe marks, 4 paws · What happens: count, show, do, leave · To what, where: them, 4 toes, 4 paws
This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 336 «The garden in winter: bare trees, tracks in the snow and who sleeps where» 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: each cat paw print in the snow shows 4 toes.
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 | _ | 11 shows | punct |
| 4 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 print | det |
| 5 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 paw | compound |
| 6 | paw | paw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 print | compound |
| 7 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 shows | nsubj | ||
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 snow | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 snow | det |
| 10 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 print | nmod |
| 11 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Count | parataxis |
| 12 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 toes | nummod |
| 13 | toes | toe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 shows | obj |
| 14 | . | . | 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 | show | present | each paw print in the snow | 4 toes | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent toe=Recipient |
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 toe marks do all 4 paws of one cat leave?
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 | 4 marks | amod |
| 3 | toe | toe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 marks | compound |
| 4 | marks | mark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 do | nsubj |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 paws | det |
| 7 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 paws | nummod |
| 8 | paws | paw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 do | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 cat | case |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 cat | nummod |
| 11 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 leave | obl |
| 12 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 paws | acl:relcl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | many toe marks | all 4 paws | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent paw=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | leave | infinitive | all 4 paws not said here | of one cat | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of cat=Initial_Location |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
20
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
18
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 18 | 18 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
4
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
16
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 16 | 16 | 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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