Test 5 · ★★★ · Tiny champions: the strongest beetle, the highest-jumping…

«my mate found a centipede with exactly 50 pairs of legs» Why should you doubt him?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: mate, you · What happens: find, doubt · To what, where: centipede

This is test 5 · ★★★ 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. 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 found	punct
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 mate	nmod:poss
3	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 found	nsubj
4	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 centipede	det
6	centipede	centipede	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 found	obj
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 pairs	case
8	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	9 50	advmod
9	50	50	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 pairs	nummod
10	pairs	pair	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 centipede	nmod
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 legs	case
12	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 pairs	nmod
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 centipede	punct
14	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	17 doubt	advmod
15	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 doubt	aux
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 doubt	nsubj
17	doubt	doubt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 found	xcomp
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 doubt	obj
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 found	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find in a quote	past	my mate	a centipede				with 50 pairs of legs	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent centipede=Attribute clause=Theme
2	doubt	should	you	centipede					vn judgment-33.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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.

The options

Option 1

All centipedes have exactly 1,000 legs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 centipedes	det
2	centipedes	centipede	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	5 1,000	advmod
5	1,000	1000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 legs	nummod
6	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	all centipedes	1,000 legs					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Centipedes always have an odd number of pairs, and 50 is even

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Centipedes	centipede	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	nsubj
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 have	advmod
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 number	det
5	odd	odd	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 number	amod
6	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 have	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 pairs	case
8	pairs	pair	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 number	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 is	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 is	cc
11	50	50	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	12 is	nsubj
12	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 have	conj
13	even	even	ADV	_	12 is	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Centipedes	a odd number of pairs				always property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Patient
2	be	present	50						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Centipedes only have 4 pairs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Centipedes	centipede	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 have	advmod
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	4	4	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 pairs	nummod
5	pairs	pair	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Centipedes	4 pairs					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pair=Patient

Option 4

Centipedes have no legs, they slide

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Centipedes	centipede	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 legs	det
4	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 slide	punct
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 slide	nsubj
7	slide	slide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 have	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Centipedes	no legs					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient
2	slide	present	Centipedes = centipede						vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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