Test 11 · ★★★ · Farm animals by numbers: stomachs, hooves, toes, eggs and…
Count them: a sow has 11 piglets and 14 teats. If each piglet keeps one teat, how many teats are left free?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, sow, piglet · What happens: count, have, keep, leave · To what, where: them, 11 piglets, one teat
This is test 11 · ★★★ of lesson 350 «Farm animals by numbers: stomachs, hooves, toes, eggs and litres» 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 sow has 11 piglets and 14 teats.
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 has | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 sow | det |
| 5 | sow | sow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 has | nsubj |
| 6 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Count | parataxis |
| 7 | 11 | 11 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 piglets | nummod |
| 8 | piglets | piglet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 has | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 teats | cc |
| 10 | 14 | 14 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 teats | nummod |
| 11 | teats | teat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 piglets | conj |
| 12 | . | . | 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 sow | 11 piglets and 14 teats | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piglet=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: If each piglet keeps one teat, how many teats are left free?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 keeps | mark |
| 2 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 piglet | det |
| 3 | piglet | piglet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 keeps | nsubj |
| 4 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 left | advcl |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 teat | nummod |
| 6 | teat | teat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 keeps | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 teats | punct |
| 8 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 many | advmod |
| 9 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 teats | amod |
| 10 | teats | teat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 teat | conj |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 left | aux:pass |
| 12 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 left | xcomp |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 left | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep a condition, not said to happen | present | each piglet | one teat and many teats | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent teat=Theme | ||||
| 2 | leave | present · passive | free property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V» |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
25
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 25 | 25 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
11
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 11 | 11 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
3
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
0
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 0 | 0 | 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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