Exam question 2 · Farm animals by numbers: stomachs, hooves, toes, eggs and…

State the number of toes upon which a horse bears its weight on each foot.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: state · To what, where: number

This is exam question 2 of lesson 350 «Farm animals by numbers: stomachs, hooves, toes, eggs and litres» 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 toes	case
5	toes	toe	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 number	nmod
6	upon	upon	ADP	_	7 which	case
7	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	10 bears	det
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 horse	det
9	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bears	compound
10	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 toes	nmod
11	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 weight	nmod:poss
12	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bears	nmod
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 foot	case
14	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	15 foot	det
15	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bears	nmod
16	.	.	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 toes which horse bears number's weight on each foot					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent number=Topic

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

Three

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 2

Two

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

One

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 4

Four

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word 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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