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Test 1 · ★ · Rice, maize and potatoes: the plants that feed the world

Count them: a corn cob has 16 rows with 40 kernels in each. How many kernels and how many silk threads did it once have?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, corn cob, many kernels · What happens: count, have, do · To what, where: them, 16 rows, cob

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 345 «Rice, maize and potatoes: the plants that feed the world» 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 corn cob has 16 rows with 40 kernels in each.

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	_	7 has	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cob	det
5	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cob	compound
6	cob	cob	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 has	nsubj
7	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Count	parataxis
8	16	16	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 rows	nummod
9	rows	row	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 has	obj
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 kernels	case
11	40	40	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	12 kernels	nummod
12	kernels	kernel	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 rows	nmod
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 each	case
14	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	12 kernels	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	have	present	a corn cob	16 rows				with 40 kernels in each	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent row=Patient

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 kernels and how many silk threads did it once have?

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 kernels	amod
3	kernels	kernel	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 did	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 threads	cc
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 many	advmod
6	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 threads	amod
7	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 threads	compound
8	threads	thread	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 kernels	conj
9	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 did	obj
11	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	12 have	advmod
12	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 did	ccomp
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	many kernels and many silk threads	cob					tree rules
2	have	present	many kernels and many silk threads not said here					once property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

56 kernels and 56 silks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	56	56	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 kernels	nummod
2	kernels	kernel	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 silks	cc
4	56	56	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 silks	nummod
5	silks	silk	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 kernels	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

640 kernels and 40 silks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	640	640	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 kernels	nummod
2	kernels	kernel	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 silks	cc
4	40	40	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 silks	nummod
5	silks	silk	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 kernels	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

640 kernels and 16 silks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	640	640	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 kernels	nummod
2	kernels	kernel	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 silks	cc
4	16	16	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 silks	nummod
5	silks	silk	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 kernels	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

640 kernels and 640 silks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	640	640	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 kernels	nummod
2	kernels	kernel	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 silks	cc
4	640	640	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 silks	nummod
5	silks	silk	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 kernels	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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