Test 10 · Where eggs come from: hens, shell colours, sizes and what…
Count them: 4 hens peck in the yard, each on two legs. How many legs and how many wings?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, 4 hens · What happens: count, peck · To what, where: them, each
This is test 10 of lesson 342 «Where eggs come from: hens, shell colours, sizes and what is inside» 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: 4 hens peck in the yard, each on two legs.
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 | _ | 6 peck | punct |
| 4 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 hens | nummod |
| 5 | hens | hen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 peck | nsubj |
| 6 | peck | peck | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Count | conj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 yard | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 yard | det |
| 9 | yard | yard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 peck | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 each | punct |
| 11 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 peck | obl |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 legs | case |
| 13 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 legs | nummod |
| 14 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 each | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | 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 | peck | present | 4 hens | each | in the yard | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in yard=Location |
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 wings?
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 wings | cc |
| 5 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 many | advmod |
| 6 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 wings | amod |
| 7 | wings | wing | 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 · ✓ the right answer
8 legs and 8 wings
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 legs | nummod |
| 2 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 wings | cc |
| 4 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 wings | nummod |
| 5 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 legs | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
16 legs and 8 wings
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 16 | 16 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 legs | nummod |
| 2 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 wings | cc |
| 4 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 wings | nummod |
| 5 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 legs | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
8 legs and 4 wings
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 legs | nummod |
| 2 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 wings | cc |
| 4 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 wings | nummod |
| 5 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 legs | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
4 legs and 8 wings
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 legs | nummod |
| 2 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 wings | cc |
| 4 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 wings | nummod |
| 5 | wings | wing | 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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