Test 2 · How animals sleep: half-asleep dolphins, standing horses,…
Count them: a row of 6 ducks sleeps on a log, and the 2 at the ends each keep 1 eye open. How many eyes are open?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, row, many eyes · What happens: count, sleep, keep, be · To what, where: them, log, 2
This is test 2 of lesson 390 «How animals sleep: half-asleep dolphins, standing horses, short-sleeping giraffes and birds that nap in the air» 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 row of 6 ducks sleeps on a log, and the 2 at the ends each keep 1 eye open.
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 sleeps | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 row | det |
| 5 | row | row | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sleeps | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 ducks | case |
| 7 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 ducks | nummod |
| 8 | ducks | duck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 row | nmod |
| 9 | sleeps | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Count | parataxis |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 log | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 log | det |
| 12 | log | log | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sleeps | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 keep | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 keep | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 2 | det |
| 16 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 21 keep | obl |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 ends | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 ends | det |
| 19 | ends | end | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 2 | nmod |
| 20 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 keep | advmod |
| 21 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 sleeps | conj |
| 22 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 23 eye | nummod |
| 23 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 keep | obj |
| 24 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 keep | xcomp |
| 25 | . | . | 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 | sleep | present | a row of 6 ducks | a log | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | keep | present | a row of 6 ducks not said here | the 2 at the ends | open property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=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: How many eyes are open?
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 eyes | amod |
| 3 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 open | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 open | cop |
| 5 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 open | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | many eyes | open property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Twelve
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
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 3
Four
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
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.
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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