Test 4 · ★★★ · Farm animals by numbers: stomachs, hooves, toes, eggs and…
Count them: a farmer has 2 horses and 3 cows. How many tails, and how many toes do they stand on in total?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, farmer, many tails · What happens: count, have, stand on · To what, where: them, 2 horses, total
This is test 4 · ★★★ 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 farmer has 2 horses and 3 cows.
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 farmer | det |
| 5 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 has | nsubj |
| 6 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Count | parataxis |
| 7 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 horses | nummod |
| 8 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 has | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 cows | cc |
| 10 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 cows | nummod |
| 11 | cows | cow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 horses | 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 farmer | 2 horses and 3 cows | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=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 tails, and how many toes do they stand on in total?
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 tails | amod |
| 3 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 stand | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 do | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 do | cc |
| 6 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 many | advmod |
| 7 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 toes | amod |
| 8 | toes | toe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 do | nsubj |
| 9 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 stand | aux |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 stand | nsubj |
| 11 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 stand | compound:prt |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 total | case |
| 14 | total | total | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 stand | obl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 stand | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand on | present · do-support | many tails | total | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in total=Location |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
5 tails and 40 toes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 tails | nummod |
| 2 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 toes | cc |
| 4 | 40 | 40 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 toes | nummod |
| 5 | toes | toe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 tails | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
10 tails and 32 toes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 tails | nummod |
| 2 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 toes | cc |
| 4 | 32 | 32 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 toes | nummod |
| 5 | toes | toe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 tails | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
5 tails and 32 toes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 tails | nummod |
| 2 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 toes | cc |
| 4 | 32 | 32 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 toes | nummod |
| 5 | toes | toe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 tails | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
5 tails and 20 toes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 tails | nummod |
| 2 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 toes | cc |
| 4 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 toes | nummod |
| 5 | toes | toe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 tails | 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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