Test 2 · Teeth: baby teeth, grown-up teeth and wobbly teeth
Count them: a boy had a full set of 20 baby teeth, lost four and no new ones have come yet. How many teeth are in his mouth?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, boy, new ones, many teeth · What happens: count, have, lose, come, be · To what, where: them, full set, four, mouth
This is test 2 of lesson 351 «Teeth: baby teeth, grown-up teeth and wobbly teeth» 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 boy had a full set of 20 baby teeth, lost four and no new ones have come yet.
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 had | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 boy | det |
| 5 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 had | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Count | parataxis |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 set | det |
| 8 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 set | amod |
| 9 | set | set | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 had | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 teeth | case |
| 11 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 teeth | nummod |
| 12 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 teeth | compound |
| 13 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 set | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 lost | punct |
| 15 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 had | conj |
| 16 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 lost | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 come | cc |
| 18 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 20 ones | det |
| 19 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 ones | amod |
| 20 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 come | nsubj |
| 21 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 come | aux |
| 22 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 lost | conj |
| 23 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 22 come | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | 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 | past | a boy | a full set of 20 baby teeth | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent set=Patient | ||||
| 3 | lose | past | a boy not said here | four | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent four=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | come | present · perfect | no new ones | yet | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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 teeth are in his mouth?
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 teeth | amod |
| 3 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 mouth | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 mouth | cop |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 mouth | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 7 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 mouth | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | many teeth | boy's mouth | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
24
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 24 | 24 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
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 · ✓ the right answer
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
20
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 20 | 20 | 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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