Test 10 · ★ · Do animals dream? Twitching dogs, replaying rats and colou…
Count them: 3 dogs are sleeping and twitching in a basket. How many legs could be paddling?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, 3 dogs, many legs · What happens: count, sleep, twitch, paddle · To what, where: them, basket
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 391 «Do animals dream? Twitching dogs, replaying rats and colour-changing octopuses» 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 dogs are sleeping and twitching in a basket.
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 | _ | 7 sleeping | punct |
| 4 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 dogs | nummod |
| 5 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 sleeping | nsubj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 sleeping | aux |
| 7 | sleeping | sleep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Count | parataxis |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 twitching | cc |
| 9 | twitching | twitch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 sleeping | conj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 basket | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 basket | det |
| 12 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 twitching | obl |
| 13 | . | . | 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 · progressive | 3 dogs | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | twitch | gerund | 3 dogs not said here | a basket | vn body_internal_motion-49.1 «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 legs could be paddling?
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 | 6 paddling | nsubj |
| 4 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 paddling | aux |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 paddling | aux |
| 6 | paddling | paddle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 paddling | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | paddle | could · progressive | many legs | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
6
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
16
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 16 | 16 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
9
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 9 | 9 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
12
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit 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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