Test 3 · ★★ · Hair: growing, curly and straight, eyebrows, eyelashes and…
Count them: a boy loses about 100 hairs a day. About how many hairs does he lose in a week?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, boy · What happens: count, lose · To what, where: them, 100 hairs
This is test 3 · ★★ of lesson 355 «Hair: growing, curly and straight, eyebrows, eyelashes and going grey» 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 loses about 100 hairs a day.
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 loses | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 boy | det |
| 5 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 loses | nsubj |
| 6 | loses | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Count | parataxis |
| 7 | about | about | ADV | _ | 8 100 | advmod |
| 8 | 100 | 100 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 hairs | nummod |
| 9 | hairs | hair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 loses | obj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 day | det |
| 11 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 loses | obl:unmarked |
| 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 | lose | present | a boy | 100 hairs | day | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Eventuality |
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: About how many hairs does he lose in a week?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADP | _ | 4 hairs | case |
| 2 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 many | advmod |
| 3 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hairs | amod |
| 4 | hairs | hair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 lose | obl |
| 5 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 lose | aux |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 lose | nsubj |
| 7 | lose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 week | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 week | det |
| 10 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lose | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 lose | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | present · do-support | boy | week | about many hairs | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
About 70,000
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 70,000 | advmod |
| 2 | 70,000 | 70,000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
About 100
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 100 | advmod |
| 2 | 100 | 100 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
About 7
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 7 | advmod |
| 2 | 7 | 7 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
About 700
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 700 | advmod |
| 2 | 700 | 700 | 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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