Test 3 · How animals sleep: half-asleep dolphins, standing horses,…
Count them: 3 horses doze, each resting one back hoof lifted off the ground. How many hooves are on the ground?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, 3 horses, each, one back hoof, many hooves · What happens: count, doze, rest, lift off, be · To what, where: them, one back hoof, ground
This is test 3 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: 3 horses doze, each resting one back hoof lifted off the ground.
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 doze | punct |
| 4 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 horses | nummod |
| 5 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 doze | nsubj |
| 6 | doze | doze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Count | parataxis |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 resting | punct |
| 8 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 resting | nsubj |
| 9 | resting | rest | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 doze | advcl |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 hoof | nummod |
| 11 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hoof | compound |
| 12 | hoof | hoof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 resting | obj |
| 13 | lifted | lift | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 hoof | acl |
| 14 | off | off | ADP | _ | 16 ground | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 ground | det |
| 16 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lifted | obl |
| 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 | doze | present | 3 horses | vn snooze-40.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | rest | gerund | each | one back hoof | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hoof=Theme | ||||
| 4 | lift off | participle | one back hoof not said here | the ground | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ground=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 hooves are on the ground?
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 hooves | amod |
| 3 | hooves | hoove | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 ground | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 ground | cop |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 ground | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ground | det |
| 7 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 ground | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | many hooves | the ground | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
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 2
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 3 · ✓ the right answer
Nine
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nine | nine | 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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