Test 5 · ★★ · Bones by name: hips, legs and feet, and the extra bones of…
In a cartoon Tom gets struck by lightning and his skeleton flashes up with just a few stick bones in each leg. How many bones are really in one foot?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lightning, skeleton, many bones · What happens: strike, flash up, be · To what, where: Tom, cartoon, one foot
This is test 5 · ★★ of lesson 359 «Bones by name: hips, legs and feet, and the extra bones of a baby» 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: In a cartoon Tom gets struck by lightning and his skeleton flashes up with just a few stick bones in each leg.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 cartoon | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 cartoon | det |
| 3 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 struck | obl |
| 4 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 struck | nsubj |
| 5 | gets | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 struck | aux:pass |
| 6 | struck | strike | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 lightning | case |
| 8 | lightning | lightning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 struck | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 flashes | cc |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 skeleton | nmod:poss |
| 11 | skeleton | skeleton | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 flashes | nsubj |
| 12 | flashes | flash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 struck | conj |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 flashes | compound:prt |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 bones | case |
| 15 | just | just | ADV | _ | 19 bones | advmod |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 bones | det |
| 17 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 bones | amod |
| 18 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 bones | compound |
| 19 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 flashes | obl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 leg | case |
| 21 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 leg | det |
| 22 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 bones | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 struck | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike | present · passive | lightning | Tom | a cartoon | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent subject=Instrument | |||
| 2 | flash up | present | Tom's skeleton | with a few stick bones in each leg | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with bone=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 bones are really in one foot?
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 bones | amod |
| 3 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 foot | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 foot | cop |
| 5 | really | really | ADV | _ | 8 foot | advmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 foot | case |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 foot | nummod |
| 8 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 foot | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | many bones | one foot | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
10
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
26
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 26 | 26 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
1
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
5
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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