Test 11 · ★ · The vegetable patch: peas, potatoes, tomatoes and slugs
Count them: a hedgehog and a frog hunt slugs in the patch. How many legs are hunting?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, many legs · What happens: count, hunt · To what, where: them
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 338 «The vegetable patch: peas, potatoes, tomatoes and slugs» 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 hedgehog and a frog hunt slugs in the patch.
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 | _ | 5 hedgehog | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 hedgehog | det |
| 5 | hedgehog | hedgehog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Count | parataxis |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 slugs | cc |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 slugs | det |
| 8 | frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hunt | compound |
| 9 | hunt | hunt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 slugs | compound |
| 10 | slugs | slug | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 hedgehog | conj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 patch | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 patch | det |
| 13 | patch | patch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 slugs | nmod |
| 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 |
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 are hunting?
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 | 5 hunting | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 hunting | aux |
| 5 | hunting | hunt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 hunting | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hunt | present · progressive | many legs | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
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 2
6
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
8
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
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.
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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