Test 9 · Odd-looking animals: shoebills, star-nosed moles, saigas,…
Count them: a pangolin mother and two babies roll into balls. How many balls, and how many tongues do they have together?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, pangolin mother, many balls · What happens: count, roll, have · To what, where: them, balls
This is test 9 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 pangolin mother and two babies roll into balls.
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 mother | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 mother | det |
| 5 | pangolin | pangolin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 mother | compound |
| 6 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 roll | nsubj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 babies | cc |
| 8 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 babies | nummod |
| 9 | babies | baby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 mother | conj |
| 10 | roll | roll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Count | parataxis |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 balls | case |
| 12 | balls | ball | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 roll | obl |
| 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 | roll | present | a pangolin mother and two babies | balls | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into ball=Destination |
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 balls, and how many tongues do they have 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 balls | amod |
| 3 | balls | ball | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 have | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 do | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 do | cc |
| 6 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 many | advmod |
| 7 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 tongues | amod |
| 8 | tongues | tongue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 do | nsubj |
| 9 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 have | aux |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 have | nsubj |
| 11 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | together | together | ADV | _ | 11 have | advmod |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 have | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present · do-support | many balls | together property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
6 balls and 3 tongues
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 balls | nummod |
| 2 | balls | ball | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 tongues | cc |
| 4 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 tongues | nummod |
| 5 | tongues | tongue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 balls | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
3 balls and 3 tongues
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 balls | nummod |
| 2 | balls | ball | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 tongues | cc |
| 4 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 tongues | nummod |
| 5 | tongues | tongue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 balls | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
3 balls and 6 tongues
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 balls | nummod |
| 2 | balls | ball | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 tongues | cc |
| 4 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 tongues | nummod |
| 5 | tongues | tongue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 balls | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
1 ball and 3 tongues
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 ball | nummod |
| 2 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 tongues | cc |
| 4 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 tongues | nummod |
| 5 | tongues | tongue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 ball | conj |
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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