Test 4 · Street dogs and cats: feeding, safety and never touching a…
Count them: Granny feeds 5 street cats. How many ears does she see at the bowl?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Granny, many ears · What happens: count, feed, see · To what, where: them, 5 street cats, bowl
This is test 4 of lesson 371 «Street dogs and cats: feeding, safety and never touching a strange animal» 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: Granny feeds 5 street cats.
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 | _ | 5 feeds | punct |
| 4 | Granny | Granny | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 feeds | nsubj |
| 5 | feeds | feed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Count | parataxis |
| 6 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 cats | nummod |
| 7 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cats | compound |
| 8 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 feeds | obj |
| 9 | . | . | 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 | feed | present | Granny | 5 street cats | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Recipient |
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 ears does she see at the bowl?
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 ears | amod |
| 3 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 see | nsubj |
| 4 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 see | aux |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 see | nsubj |
| 6 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 bowl | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 bowl | det |
| 9 | bowl | bowl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 see | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 see | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present · do-support | many ears | the bowl | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
15
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 15 | 15 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
20
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
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.
Option 4
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.
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/371-street-dogs-and-cats-feeding-safety-and-never-touching-a-strange-animal/t4/