Test 3 · ★★ · China's great rivers: the finless porpoise, the lost baiji…
Count them: a fishing ban starts in 2021 and lasts 10 years. In which year does it end?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, fishing ban, ban · What happens: count, start, last, end · To what, where: them, 2021
This is test 3 · ★★ of lesson 379 «China's great rivers: the finless porpoise, the lost baiji, Chinese alligators and sturgeon» 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 fishing ban starts in 2021 and lasts 10 years.
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 starts | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 ban | det |
| 5 | fishing | fishing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ban | compound |
| 6 | ban | ban | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 starts | nsubj |
| 7 | starts | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Count | parataxis |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 2021 | case |
| 9 | 2021 | 2021 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 starts | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 lasts | cc |
| 11 | lasts | last | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 starts | conj |
| 12 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 years | nummod |
| 13 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 lasts | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | . | . | 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 | start | present | a fishing ban | 2021 | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | last | present | a fishing ban not said here | year | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: 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: In which year does it end?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 year | case |
| 2 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 3 year | det |
| 3 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 end | obl |
| 4 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 end | aux |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 end | nsubj |
| 6 | end | end | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 end | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | end | present · do-support | ban | year | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
2030
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2030 | 2030 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
2041
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2041 | 2041 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
2011
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2011 | 2011 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
2031
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2031 | 2031 | 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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