Test 5 · ★★★ · How scientists test animal minds: the mirror test, puzzle…
Count them: the water jar test is done with 4 crows and then 3 rooks. How many birds in all, and how many legs?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: count, do · To what, where: them, jar test
This is test 5 · ★★★ 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: the water jar test is done with 4 crows and then 3 rooks.
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 | _ | 9 done | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 test | det |
| 5 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 jar | compound |
| 6 | jar | jar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 test | compound |
| 7 | test | test | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 done | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 done | aux:pass |
| 9 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Count | parataxis |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 crows | case |
| 11 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 crows | nummod |
| 12 | crows | crow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 done | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 rooks | cc |
| 14 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 rooks | advmod |
| 15 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 rooks | nummod |
| 16 | rooks | rook | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 crows | conj |
| 17 | . | . | 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 | do | present · passive | the jar test | with 4 crows and 3 rooks | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
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 birds in all, and how many legs?
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 birds | amod |
| 3 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 all | case |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 birds | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 legs | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 legs | cc |
| 8 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 many | advmod |
| 9 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 legs | amod |
| 10 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 birds | conj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 birds | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
7 birds, 7 legs
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 7 | 7 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 birds | nummod |
| 2 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 legs | punct |
| 4 | 7 | 7 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 legs | nummod |
| 5 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 birds | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
7 birds, 14 legs
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 7 | 7 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 birds | nummod |
| 2 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 legs | punct |
| 4 | 14 | 14 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 legs | nummod |
| 5 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 birds | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
7 birds, 28 legs
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 7 | 7 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 birds | nummod |
| 2 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 legs | punct |
| 4 | 28 | 28 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 legs | nummod |
| 5 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 birds | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
12 birds, 14 legs
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 birds | nummod |
| 2 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 legs | punct |
| 4 | 14 | 14 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 legs | nummod |
| 5 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 birds | 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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