Test 4 · ★★★ · How scientists test animal minds: the mirror test, puzzle…
Count them: a chart lists 5 kinds that passed the mirror test and 3 that failed. How many kinds were tested?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, chart, 5 kinds, mirror test · What happens: count, list, pass, fail, test · To what, where: them, 5 kinds, mirror test, many kinds
This is test 4 · ★★★ of lesson 389 «How scientists test animal minds: the mirror test, puzzle boxes and Clever Hans» 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 chart lists 5 kinds that passed the mirror test and 3 that failed.
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 lists | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 chart | det |
| 5 | chart | chart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lists | nsubj |
| 6 | lists | list | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Count | parataxis |
| 7 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 kinds | nummod |
| 8 | kinds | kind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 lists | obj |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 passed | nsubj |
| 10 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 kinds | acl:relcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 test | det |
| 12 | mirror | mirror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 test | compound |
| 13 | test | test | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 passed | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 3 | cc |
| 15 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 test | conj |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 failed | nsubj |
| 17 | failed | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 test | acl:relcl |
| 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 | list | present | a chart | 5 kinds | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | pass | past | 5 kinds | the mirror test | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme test=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | fail | past | the mirror test | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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 kinds were tested?
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 kinds | amod |
| 3 | kinds | kind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 tested | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 tested | aux:pass |
| 5 | tested | test | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 tested | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | test | past · passive | many kinds | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Eight
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
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 3
Two
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Three
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Three | three | 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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