Test 7 · Mushrooms and creatures to avoid in the woods: death caps,…
Count them: mum finds 2 grown-up ticks on the dog. How many legs is that, and are they insects?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, mum, 2 grown up, many legs · What happens: count, find, grow, tick, be · To what, where: them, that, insects · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 7 of lesson 393 «Mushrooms and creatures to avoid in the woods: death caps, adders, ticks and hornets» 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: mum finds 2 grown-up ticks on the dog.
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 | _ | 5 finds | punct |
| 4 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 finds | nsubj |
| 5 | finds | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Count | parataxis |
| 6 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 up | nummod |
| 7 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 up | amod |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 up | punct |
| 9 | up | up | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ticks | nsubj |
| 10 | ticks | tick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 finds | ccomp |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 dog | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 dog | det |
| 13 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ticks | obl |
| 14 | . | . | 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 | find | present | mum | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | grow | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | tick | present | 2 grown up | on the dog | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on dog=Location |
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 is that, and are they insects?
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 | 10 insects | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 that | cop |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 legs | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 insects | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 insects | cc |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 insects | cop |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 insects | nsubj |
| 10 | insects | insect | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 insects | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | that | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | many legs | insects | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
12 legs, and no, ticks are not insects
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 legs | nummod |
| 2 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 insects | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 insects | cc |
| 5 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 10 insects | discourse |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 no | punct |
| 7 | ticks | tick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 insects | nsubj |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 insects | cop |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 insects | advmod |
| 10 | insects | insect | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 legs | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | present | ticks | insects | tree rules |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
16 legs, and no, ticks are not insects
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 16 | 16 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 legs | nummod |
| 2 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 insects | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 insects | cc |
| 5 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 10 insects | discourse |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 no | punct |
| 7 | ticks | tick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 insects | nsubj |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 insects | cop |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 insects | advmod |
| 10 | insects | insect | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 legs | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | present | ticks | insects | tree rules |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
16 legs, and yes, they are insects
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 16 | 16 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 legs | nummod |
| 2 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 insects | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 insects | cc |
| 5 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 9 insects | discourse |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 yes | punct |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 insects | nsubj |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 insects | cop |
| 9 | insects | insect | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 legs | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | legs = leg | insects | tree rules |
Option 4
12 legs, and yes, they are insects
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 legs | nummod |
| 2 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 insects | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 insects | cc |
| 5 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 9 insects | discourse |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 yes | punct |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 insects | nsubj |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 insects | cop |
| 9 | insects | insect | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 legs | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | legs = leg | insects | tree rules |
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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