Test 9 · ★★ · The garden in winter: bare trees, tracks in the snow and w…
Count them: in the snow you find tracks of 1 fox, 2 cats and 3 sparrows. How many feet made them?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, many feet · What happens: count, find, make · To what, where: them, tracks, snow
This is test 9 · ★★ 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: in the snow you find tracks of 1 fox, 2 cats and 3 sparrows.
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 | _ | 8 find | punct |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 snow | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 snow | det |
| 6 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 find | obl |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 find | nsubj |
| 8 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Count | parataxis |
| 9 | tracks | track | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 find | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 fox | case |
| 11 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 fox | nummod |
| 12 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tracks | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 cats | punct |
| 14 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 cats | nummod |
| 15 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 tracks | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 sparrows | cc |
| 17 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 18 sparrows | nummod |
| 18 | sparrows | sparrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 tracks | conj |
| 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 | find | present | you | tracks of 1 fox and 2 cats and 3 sparrows | the snow | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent track=Topic |
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 feet made them?
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 feet | amod |
| 3 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 made | nsubj |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 made | obj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | many feet | tracks = track | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
9
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 9 | 9 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
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
12
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
24
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 24 | 24 | 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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