Test 12 · Minibeasts in the house: house spiders, silverfish, woodli…
Count them: under a microscope a girl sees a dust mite and a silverfish. How many legs together, if a silverfish is an insect?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, girl, many · What happens: count, see, be · To what, where: them, dust mite, microscope, insect
This is test 12 of lesson 370 «Minibeasts in the house: house spiders, silverfish, woodlice, moths and cockroaches» 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: under a microscope a girl sees a dust mite and a silverfish.
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 | _ | 9 sees | punct |
| 4 | under | under | ADP | _ | 6 microscope | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 microscope | det |
| 6 | microscope | microscope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sees | obl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 girl | det |
| 8 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sees | nsubj |
| 9 | sees | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Count | parataxis |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 mite | det |
| 11 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 mite | compound |
| 12 | mite | mite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sees | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 silverfish | cc |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 silverfish | det |
| 15 | silverfish | silverfish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 mite | conj |
| 16 | . | . | 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 | see | present | a girl | a dust mite and a silverfish | a microscope | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mite=Stimulus |
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 legs together, if a silverfish is an insect?
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 | 11 insect | nsubj |
| 3 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 many | nsubj |
| 4 | together | together | ADV | _ | 2 many | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 insect | punct |
| 6 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 insect | mark |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 silverfish | det |
| 8 | silverfish | silverfish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 insect | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 insect | cop |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 insect | det |
| 11 | insect | insect | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 insect | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | many | a insect | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
16
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 16 | 16 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
12
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
14
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 14 | 14 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
10
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 10 | 10 | 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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