Test 3 · White storks: Ukraine's favourite birds and their journey…
Count them: a stork flies about 10,000 kilometres to Africa and the same back. How far in a year?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, stork · What happens: count, fly · To what, where: them, 10,000 kilometres, Africa
This is test 3 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: a stork flies about 10,000 kilometres to Africa and the same back.
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 flies | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 stork | det |
| 5 | stork | stork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 flies | nsubj |
| 6 | flies | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Count | parataxis |
| 7 | about | about | ADV | _ | 8 10,000 | advmod |
| 8 | 10,000 | 10000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 kilometres | nummod |
| 9 | kilometres | kilometre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 flies | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 Africa | case |
| 11 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 flies | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 back | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 back | det |
| 14 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 back | amod |
| 15 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Africa | 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 | fly | present | a stork | 10,000 kilometres | Africa and the same back | vn drive-11.5-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent kilometre=Theme to africa=Destination |
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 far in a year?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 far | advmod |
| 2 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 year | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 year | det |
| 5 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 far | obl |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 far | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
About 20,000 kilometres
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 20,000 | advmod |
| 2 | 20,000 | 20000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 kilometres | nummod |
| 3 | kilometres | kilometre | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Only about 10,000 kilometres
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 3 10,000 | advmod |
| 2 | about | about | ADV | _ | 3 10,000 | advmod |
| 3 | 10,000 | 10000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 kilometres | nummod |
| 4 | kilometres | kilometre | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Only about 5,000 kilometres
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 3 5,000 | advmod |
| 2 | about | about | ADV | _ | 3 5,000 | advmod |
| 3 | 5,000 | 5000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 kilometres | nummod |
| 4 | kilometres | kilometre | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
About 100,000 kilometres
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 100,000 | advmod |
| 2 | 100,000 | 100000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 kilometres | nummod |
| 3 | kilometres | kilometre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 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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