Exam question 2 · Honey and the beekeeper's year
State the number of legs, wings and eyes possessed by an individual honeybee.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: state, possess · To what, where: number, eyes
This is exam question 2 of lesson 344 «Honey and the beekeeper's year» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | State | state | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 number | det |
| 3 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 State | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 legs | case |
| 5 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 number | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 wings | punct |
| 7 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 legs | conj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 eyes | cc |
| 9 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 legs | conj |
| 10 | possessed | possess | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 eyes | acl |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 honeybee | case |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 honeybee | det |
| 13 | individual | individual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 honeybee | amod |
| 14 | honeybee | honeybee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 possessed | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 State | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | state speech: other | imperative | you not said here | the number of legs and wings and eyes | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent number=Topic | ||||
| 2 | possess | participle | eyes not said here | by a individual honeybee | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
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.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Six legs, four wings and only two eyes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 legs | nummod |
| 2 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 wings | punct |
| 4 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 wings | nummod |
| 5 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 legs | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 eyes | cc |
| 7 | only | only | ADV | _ | 8 two | advmod |
| 8 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 eyes | nummod |
| 9 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 legs | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Six legs, two wings and two big eyes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 legs | nummod |
| 2 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 wings | punct |
| 4 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 wings | nummod |
| 5 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 legs | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 eyes | cc |
| 7 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 eyes | nummod |
| 8 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 eyes | amod |
| 9 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 legs | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Eight legs, four wings and five eyes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 legs | nummod |
| 2 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 wings | punct |
| 4 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 wings | nummod |
| 5 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 legs | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 eyes | cc |
| 7 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 eyes | nummod |
| 8 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 legs | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Six legs, four wings and five eyes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 legs | nummod |
| 2 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 wings | punct |
| 4 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 wings | nummod |
| 5 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 legs | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 eyes | cc |
| 7 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 eyes | nummod |
| 8 | eyes | eye | 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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