Exam question 4 · Tiny champions: the strongest beetle, the highest-jumping…
State the number of legs possessed by the millipede discovered in a deep drill hole in Australia in the year 2020.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: state, possess, discover · To what, where: number, legs, millipede, deep drill hole
This is exam question 4 of lesson 365 «Tiny champions: the strongest beetle, the highest-jumping flea and the leggiest millipede» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | State | state | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 number | det |
| 3 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 State | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 legs | case |
| 5 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 number | nmod |
| 6 | possessed | possess | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 legs | acl |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 millipede | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 millipede | det |
| 9 | millipede | millipede | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 possessed | obl |
| 10 | discovered | discover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 millipede | acl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 hole | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 hole | det |
| 13 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 hole | amod |
| 14 | drill | drill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 hole | compound |
| 15 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 discovered | obl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 Australia | case |
| 17 | Australia | Australia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 hole | nmod |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 year | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 year | det |
| 20 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 hole | nmod |
| 21 | 2020 | 2020 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 20 year | flat |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 State | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | state speech: other | imperative | you not said here | the number of legs | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent number=Topic | ||||
| 2 | possess | participle | legs not said here | by the millipede | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 3 | discover | participle | the millipede not said here | a deep drill hole in Australia in the year | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: 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.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Ten thousand
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 thousand | compound |
| 2 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
One hundred
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 1 One | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
One thousand three hundred and six
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 thousand | compound |
| 2 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 hundred | compound |
| 3 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 hundred | compound |
| 4 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 six | cc |
| 6 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 hundred | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Seven hundred and fifty, the same as every millipede
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 hundred | compound |
| 2 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 same | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 fifty | cc |
| 4 | fifty | fifty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 hundred | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 same | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 same | det |
| 7 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 millipede | case |
| 9 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 millipede | det |
| 10 | millipede | millipede | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 same | obl |
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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