Test 7 · ★ · Animal colours: pink flamingos, rare blue animals, white a…

Count them: a boy says a ladybird with 7 spots is 7 years old. What is wrong?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, boy, ladybird · What happens: count, say, be · To what, where: them · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 367 «Animal colours: pink flamingos, rare blue animals, white albinos and black panthers» 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 boy says a ladybird with 7 spots is 7 years old.

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 says	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 boy	det
5	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 says	nsubj
6	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Count	parataxis
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 ladybird	det
8	ladybird	ladybird	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 old	nsubj
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 spots	case
10	7	7	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 spots	nummod
11	spots	spot	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 ladybird	nmod
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 old	cop
13	7	7	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	14 years	nummod
14	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 old	obl:unmarked
15	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 says	ccomp
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Count	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	count	imperative	you not said here	them = they			vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	say speech: assert	present	a boy				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	a ladybird with 7 spots		year	old property	tree rules

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: What is wrong?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 wrong	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wrong	cop
3	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 wrong	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						wrong property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Spots show the kind of ladybird, and an adult keeps the same spots all its life

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Spots	spot	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 show	nsubj
2	show	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 kind	det
4	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 show	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 ladybird	case
6	ladybird	ladybird	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kind	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 keeps	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 keeps	cc
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 adult	det
10	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 keeps	nsubj
11	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 show	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 spots	det
13	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 spots	amod
14	spots	spot	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 keeps	obj
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 life	det:predet
16	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 life	nmod:poss
17	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 keeps	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present	Spots	the kind of ladybird					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent kind=Recipient
2	keep	present	a adult	the same spots				adult's life obl:unmarked	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spot=Theme

Option 2

It should be 14 years, two spots per year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 years	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 years	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 years	cop
4	14	14	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 years	nummod
5	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 spots	punct
7	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 spots	nummod
8	spots	spot	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 years	conj
9	per	per	ADP	_	10 year	case
10	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 spots	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	should	It	14 years and two spots per year					tree rules

Option 3

Nothing is wrong, each spot is a year, so it is old for a ladybird

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 wrong	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wrong	cop
3	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 year	punct
5	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	6 spot	det
6	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 year	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 year	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 year	det
9	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wrong	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 old	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	14 old	advmod
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 old	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 old	cop
14	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 wrong	conj
15	for	for	ADP	_	17 ladybird	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 ladybird	det
17	ladybird	ladybird	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 old	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	Nothing		wrong property	tree rules
2	is a	present	each spot	a year		tree rules
3	is	present	spot		for a ladybird; old property	tree rules

Option 4

Ladybirds have one spot for each month

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ladybirds	ladybird	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 spot	nummod
4	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 have	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 month	case
6	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	7 month	det
7	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 have	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Ladybirds	one spot			month		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spot=Patient

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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