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Test 2 · ★ · City birds: sparrows, starlings, swifts, crows and peregri…

Count them: a boy looks at a swift's foot. How many toes, and which way can they point?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, boy, way · What happens: count, look, point · To what, where: them

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 369 «City birds: sparrows, starlings, swifts, crows and peregrines on tall buildings» 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 looks at a swift's foot.

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 looks	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 boy	det
5	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 looks	nsubj
6	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Count	parataxis
7	at	at	ADP	_	11 foot	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 swift	det
9	swift	swift	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 foot	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 swift	case
11	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 looks	obl
12	.	.	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	look	present	a boy					at a swift's foot	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at foot=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 toes, and which way can they point?

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 toes	amod
3	toes	toe	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 point	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 point	cc
6	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	7 way	det
7	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 point	nsubj
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 point	aux
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 point	nsubj
10	point	point	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 toes	acl:relcl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 toes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	point	can	which way						vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

3 toes pointing forward and 1 back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	3	3	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 toes	nummod
2	toes	toe	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	pointing	point	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 toes	acl
4	forward	forward	ADV	_	3 pointing	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 1	cc
6	1	1	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 toes	conj
7	back	back	ADV	_	6 1	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	point	gerund	3 toes not said here					forward property	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

4 toes, all able to point forward

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	4	4	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 toes	nummod
2	toes	toe	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 able	punct
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 able	det
5	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 toes	amod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 point	mark
7	point	point	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 able	xcomp
8	forward	forward	ADV	_	7 point	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	point	to-infinitive						forward property	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

2 toes pointing forward

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 toes	nummod
2	toes	toe	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	pointing	point	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 toes	acl
4	forward	forward	ADV	_	3 pointing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	point	gerund	2 toes not said here					forward property	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

5 toes like a hand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	5	5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 toes	nummod
2	toes	toe	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	like	like	ADP	_	5 hand	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 hand	det
5	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 toes	nmod

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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