Test 12 · ★★ · Eyes and ears deeper: glasses, colour blindness, tears, ea…
Count them: two friends stare at screens for one minute and blink 5 times each instead of about 15. How many blinks did they miss together?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, two friends, many blinks · What happens: count, stare, blink, miss · To what, where: them
This is test 12 · ★★ of lesson 362 «Eyes and ears deeper: glasses, colour blindness, tears, earwax and dizziness» 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: two friends stare at screens for one minute and blink 5 times each instead of about 15.
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 stare | punct |
| 4 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 friends | nummod |
| 5 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 stare | nsubj |
| 6 | stare | stare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Count | advcl |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 screens | case |
| 8 | screens | screen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 stare | obl |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 minute | case |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 minute | nummod |
| 11 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stare | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 blink | cc |
| 13 | blink | blink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 stare | conj |
| 14 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 times | nummod |
| 15 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 blink | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 times | nmod:unmarked |
| 17 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 20 15 | case |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 instead | fixed |
| 19 | about | about | ADV | _ | 20 15 | advmod |
| 20 | 15 | 15 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 blink | obl |
| 21 | . | . | 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 | stare | present | two friends | minute | at screens | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at screen=Theme | |||
| 3 | blink | present | two friends not said here | time | instead 15 | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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 blinks did they miss together?
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 blinks | amod |
| 3 | blinks | blink | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 miss | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 miss | aux |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 miss | nsubj |
| 6 | miss | miss | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | together | together | ADV | _ | 6 miss | advmod |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 miss | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | miss | past · do-support | many blinks | together property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
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.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
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.
Option 3
30
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 30 | 30 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
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.
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/362-eyes-and-ears-deeper-glasses-colour-blindness-tears-earwax-and-dizziness/t12/