Test 8 · ★ · Giant reptiles of the past: Titanoboa, Sarcosuchus, Deinos…
Count them: a lizard has 4 legs and 1 tail. How many legs and tails do 3 Megalania have together?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, lizard, many legs · What happens: count, have · To what, where: them, 4 legs
This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 383 «Giant reptiles of the past: Titanoboa, Sarcosuchus, Deinosuchus and giant tortoises» 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 lizard has 4 legs and 1 tail.
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 has | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 lizard | det |
| 5 | lizard | lizard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 has | nsubj |
| 6 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Count | parataxis |
| 7 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 legs | nummod |
| 8 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 has | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 tail | cc |
| 10 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 tail | nummod |
| 11 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 legs | conj |
| 12 | . | . | 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 | have | present | a lizard | 4 legs and 1 tail | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient |
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 legs and tails do 3 Megalania have together?
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 legs | amod |
| 3 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 have | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 tails | cc |
| 5 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 legs | conj |
| 6 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 have | aux |
| 7 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 have | nsubj |
| 8 | Megalania | Megalania | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 have | nsubj |
| 9 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | together | together | ADV | _ | 9 have | advmod |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 have | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present · do-support | many legs and tails | together property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
12 legs and 12 tails
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 legs | nummod |
| 2 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 tails | cc |
| 4 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 tails | nummod |
| 5 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 legs | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
9 legs and 3 tails
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 9 | 9 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 legs | nummod |
| 2 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 tails | cc |
| 4 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 tails | nummod |
| 5 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 legs | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
12 legs and 3 tails
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 legs | nummod |
| 2 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 tails | cc |
| 4 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 tails | nummod |
| 5 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 legs | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
4 legs and 1 tail
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 legs | nummod |
| 2 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 tail | cc |
| 4 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 tail | nummod |
| 5 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 legs | 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.
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