Test 8 · Poisonous plants to stay away from: berries, foxglove, yew…
Count them: a foxglove spike carries 24 bells and a second one carries 18. How many bells are there to look at but never put in your mouth?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, foxglove spike, second one, many bells · What happens: count, carry, be, look, not put · To what, where: them, 24 bells, 18, mouth
This is test 8 of lesson 392 «Poisonous plants to stay away from: berries, foxglove, yew and nightshade» 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 foxglove spike carries 24 bells and a second one carries 18.
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 carries | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 spike | det |
| 5 | foxglove | foxglove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 spike | compound |
| 6 | spike | spike | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 carries | nsubj |
| 7 | carries | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Count | parataxis |
| 8 | 24 | 24 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 bells | nummod |
| 9 | bells | bell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 carries | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 carries | cc |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 one | det |
| 12 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 13 one | amod |
| 13 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 carries | nsubj |
| 14 | carries | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 carries | conj |
| 15 | 18 | 18 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 carries | obj |
| 16 | . | . | 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 | carry | present | a foxglove spike | 24 bells | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bell=Theme | ||||
| 3 | carry | present | a second one | 18 | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 18=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 bells are there to look at but never put in your mouth?
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 bells | amod |
| 3 | bells | bell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 there | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 there | cop |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 look | mark |
| 7 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 there | advcl |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 look | obl |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 put | cc |
| 10 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 11 put | advmod |
| 11 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 look | conj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 mouth | case |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 14 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 put | obl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 there | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | many bells | there property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | look | to-infinitive | many bells not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | not put | infinitive | many bells not said here | your mouth | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in mouth=Destination |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
36
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 36 | 36 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
32
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 32 | 32 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
44
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 44 | 44 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
42
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 42 | 42 | 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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