Test 1 · White storks: Ukraine's favourite birds and their journey…
Count them: four stork chicks poke their heads over the nest. How many beaks and legs?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, four stork chicks · What happens: count, poke · To what, where: them, heads, nest
This is test 1 of lesson 375 «White storks: Ukraine's favourite birds and their journey to Africa» 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: four stork chicks poke their heads over the nest.
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 | _ | 7 poke | punct |
| 4 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 chicks | nummod |
| 5 | stork | stork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 chicks | compound |
| 6 | chicks | chick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 poke | nsubj |
| 7 | poke | poke | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Count | parataxis |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 heads | nmod:poss |
| 9 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 poke | obj |
| 10 | over | over | ADP | _ | 12 nest | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 nest | det |
| 12 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 poke | 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 | poke | present | four stork chicks | chicks's heads | the nest | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent head=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 beaks and legs?
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 beaks | amod |
| 3 | beaks | beak | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 legs | cc |
| 5 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 beaks | conj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 beaks | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
4 beaks and 16 legs
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 beaks | nummod |
| 2 | beaks | beak | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 legs | cc |
| 4 | 16 | 16 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 legs | nummod |
| 5 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 beaks | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
4 beaks and 4 legs
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 beaks | nummod |
| 2 | beaks | beak | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 legs | cc |
| 4 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 legs | nummod |
| 5 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 beaks | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
8 beaks and 8 legs
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 beaks | nummod |
| 2 | beaks | beak | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 legs | cc |
| 4 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 legs | nummod |
| 5 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 beaks | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
4 beaks and 8 legs
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 beaks | nummod |
| 2 | beaks | beak | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 legs | cc |
| 4 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 legs | nummod |
| 5 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 beaks | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/375-white-storks-ukraine-s-favourite-birds-and-their-journey-to-africa/t1/