Test 2 · Sugar, chocolate, tea and coffee: the plants behind treats
Count them: a tea picker picks from 4 shoots, taking two leaves and a bud from each. How many bits does she pick?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, tea picker, many bits · What happens: count, pick, take · To what, where: them, two leaves, each
This is test 2 of lesson 347 «Sugar, chocolate, tea and coffee: the plants behind treats» 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 tea picker picks from 4 shoots, taking two leaves and a bud from 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 picks | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 picker | det |
| 5 | tea | tea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 picker | compound |
| 6 | picker | picker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 picks | nsubj |
| 7 | picks | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Count | parataxis |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 shoots | case |
| 9 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 shoots | nummod |
| 10 | shoots | shoot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 picks | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 taking | punct |
| 12 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 picks | advcl |
| 13 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 leaves | nummod |
| 14 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 taking | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 bud | cc |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 bud | det |
| 17 | bud | bud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 leaves | conj |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 each | case |
| 19 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 taking | obl |
| 20 | . | . | 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 | pick | present | a tea picker | from 4 shoots | vn chew-39.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent from shoot=Patient | ||||
| 3 | take | gerund | a tea picker not said here | two leaves and a bud | each | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent leaf=Theme from each=Initial_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 bits does she pick?
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 bits | amod |
| 3 | bits | bit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 pick | nsubj |
| 4 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 pick | aux |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 pick | nsubj |
| 6 | pick | pick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 pick | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pick | present · do-support | many bits | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
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 2 · ✓ the right answer
12
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
16
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 16 | 16 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
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.
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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