Test 10 · The park pond through the year: ducks, coots, swans, drago…
Count them: a mallard and 6 ducklings cross the path and 2 swans glide past. How many legs and how many beaks?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, mallard, 2 swans · What happens: count, cross, glide · To what, where: them, path
This is test 10 of lesson 337 «The park pond through the year: ducks, coots, swans, dragonflies and ice» 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: a mallard and 6 ducklings cross the path and 2 swans glide past.
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 | _ | 9 cross | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 mallard | det |
| 5 | mallard | mallard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cross | nsubj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 ducklings | cc |
| 7 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 ducklings | nummod |
| 8 | ducklings | duckling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 mallard | conj |
| 9 | cross | cross | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Count | parataxis |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 path | det |
| 11 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cross | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 glide | cc |
| 13 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 swans | nummod |
| 14 | swans | swan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 glide | nsubj |
| 15 | glide | glide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 cross | conj |
| 16 | past | past | ADV | _ | 15 glide | advmod |
| 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 | cross | present | a mallard and 6 ducklings | the path | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent path=Patient | ||||
| 3 | glide | present | 2 swans | past property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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 legs and how many beaks?
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 legs | amod |
| 3 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 beaks | cc |
| 5 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 many | advmod |
| 6 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 beaks | amod |
| 7 | beaks | beak | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 legs | conj |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 legs | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
18 legs and 7 beaks
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 18 | 18 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 legs | nummod |
| 2 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 beaks | cc |
| 4 | 7 | 7 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 beaks | nummod |
| 5 | beaks | beak | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 legs | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
18 legs and 9 beaks
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 18 | 18 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 legs | nummod |
| 2 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 beaks | cc |
| 4 | 9 | 9 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 beaks | nummod |
| 5 | beaks | beak | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 legs | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
36 legs and 9 beaks
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 36 | 36 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 legs | nummod |
| 2 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 beaks | cc |
| 4 | 9 | 9 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 beaks | nummod |
| 5 | beaks | beak | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 legs | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
9 legs and 9 beaks
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 9 | 9 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 legs | nummod |
| 2 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 beaks | cc |
| 4 | 9 | 9 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 beaks | nummod |
| 5 | beaks | beak | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 legs | 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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