Test 3 · ★★★ · The Chornobyl zone: how wild animals came back, and what i…
Count them: about 30 horses were let go in 1998 and now there are over 100. By how many times did they grow, at least?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, 30 horses, 100, horses · What happens: count, let, go, be, grow · To what, where: them, 30 horses, 1998, least
This is test 3 · ★★★ of lesson 376 «The Chornobyl zone: how wild animals came back, and what is still argued» 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: about 30 horses were let go in 1998 and now there are over 100.
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 | _ | 8 let | punct |
| 4 | about | about | ADV | _ | 5 30 | advmod |
| 5 | 30 | 30 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 horses | nummod |
| 6 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 let | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 let | aux:pass |
| 8 | let | let | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Count | parataxis |
| 9 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 let | xcomp |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 1998 | case |
| 11 | 1998 | 1998 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 go | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 are | cc |
| 13 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 are | advmod |
| 14 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 15 are | expl |
| 15 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 let | conj |
| 16 | over | over | ADV | _ | 17 100 | advmod |
| 17 | 100 | 100 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 are | nsubj |
| 18 | . | . | 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 | let | past · passive | 30 horses | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | go | infinitive | 30 horses not said here | 1998 | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in 1998=Location | ||||
| 4 | be | present | 100 | there | now | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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: By how many times did they grow, at least?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | By | by | SCONJ | _ | 7 grow | mark |
| 2 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 many | advmod |
| 3 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 times | amod |
| 4 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 grow | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 grow | aux |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 grow | nsubj |
| 7 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 grow | punct |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 least | case |
| 10 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 grow | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 least | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past · do-support | horses = horse | least | time | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at least=Location |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
2 times
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 times | nummod |
| 2 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
30 times
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 30 | 30 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 times | nummod |
| 2 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
More than 3 times
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | More | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 3 3 | advmod |
| 2 | than | than | ADP | _ | 1 More | fixed |
| 3 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 times | nummod |
| 4 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
100 times, one for every horse
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 100 | 100 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 times | nummod |
| 2 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 one | punct |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 times | appos |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 horse | case |
| 6 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 horse | det |
| 7 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 one | 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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