Test 3 · Odd-looking animals: shoebills, star-nosed moles, saigas,…
Count them: a girl draws a star-nosed mole correctly. How many fleshy rays should she draw on each side of the star?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, girl, many fleshy rays · What happens: count, draw, nose · To what, where: them, nosed mole, side
This is test 3 of lesson 366 «Odd-looking animals: shoebills, star-nosed moles, saigas, pangolins and hagfish» 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 girl draws a star-nosed mole correctly.
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 draws | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 girl | det |
| 5 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 draws | nsubj |
| 6 | draws | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Count | parataxis |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 mole | det |
| 8 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 nosed | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 star | punct |
| 10 | nosed | nose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 mole | amod |
| 11 | mole | mole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 draws | obj |
| 12 | correctly | correctly | ADV | _ | 6 draws | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | 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 | draw | present | a girl | a nosed mole | correctly property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mole=Theme | |||
| 3 | nose | participle | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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 fleshy rays should she draw on each side of the star?
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 | 4 rays | amod |
| 3 | fleshy | fleshy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 rays | amod |
| 4 | rays | ray | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 draw | nsubj |
| 5 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 draw | aux |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 draw | nsubj |
| 7 | draw | draw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 side | case |
| 9 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 side | det |
| 10 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 draw | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 star | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 star | det |
| 13 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 side | nmod |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 draw | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | should | many fleshy rays | each side of the star | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on side=Destination |
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
22
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 22 | 22 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
11
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 11 | 11 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
44
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 44 | 44 | 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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