Test 8 · Silkworms and goldfish: two animals China changed
Count them: 3 wild goldfish and 2 fantails swim in a pond. How many tail fins in all?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, 2 fantails · What happens: count, swim · To what, where: them, pond
This is test 8 of lesson 381 «Silkworms and goldfish: two animals China changed» 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: 3 wild goldfish and 2 fantails swim in a pond.
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 | _ | 1 Count | punct |
| 4 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 goldfish | nummod |
| 5 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 goldfish | amod |
| 6 | goldfish | goldfish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Count | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 swim | cc |
| 8 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 fantails | nummod |
| 9 | fantails | fantail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 swim | nsubj |
| 10 | swim | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Count | conj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 pond | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 pond | det |
| 13 | pond | pond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 swim | obl |
| 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 | 3 wild goldfish obl | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 2 | swim | present | 2 fantails | a pond | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pond=Trajectory |
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 tail fins in all?
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 | 4 fins | amod |
| 3 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fins | compound |
| 4 | fins | fin | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 all | case |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 fins | nmod |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 fins | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Five
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Six
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Seven
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Ten
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word 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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