Exam question 4 · Cartoon animals put right: Scooby-Doo, Garfield, Sonic, Wi…
It is given that most woodpeckers possess two toes directed forward and two directed backward on each foot. Ascertain the total number of toes directed forward upon both feet.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: most woodpeckers, two toes, two, you · What happens: give, possess, direct, ascertain · To what, where: It, foot, total number, toes
This is exam question 4 of lesson 396 «Cartoon animals put right: Scooby-Doo, Garfield, Sonic, Winnie the Pooh and Woody Woodpecker» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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: It is given that most woodpeckers possess two toes directed forward and two directed backward on each foot.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 given | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 given | aux:pass |
| 3 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 possess | mark |
| 5 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 woodpeckers | amod |
| 6 | woodpeckers | woodpecker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 possess | nsubj |
| 7 | possess | possess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 given | advcl |
| 8 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 toes | nummod |
| 9 | toes | toe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 directed | nsubj |
| 10 | directed | direct | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 possess | ccomp |
| 11 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 10 directed | advmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 directed | cc |
| 13 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 directed | nsubj |
| 14 | directed | direct | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 given | conj |
| 15 | backward | backward | ADV | _ | 14 directed | advmod |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 foot | case |
| 17 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 foot | det |
| 18 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 directed | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 given | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present · passive | It | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | possess | present | most woodpeckers | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | direct | past | two toes | forward property | vn performance-26.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | direct | participle | two | each foot | backward property | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.predicate»: agent=Agent on foot=Eventuality |
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: Ascertain the total number of toes directed forward upon both feet.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ascertain | ascertain | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 number | det |
| 3 | total | total | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 number | amod |
| 4 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ascertain | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 toes | case |
| 6 | toes | toe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 number | nmod |
| 7 | directed | direct | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 toes | acl |
| 8 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 7 directed | advmod |
| 9 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 11 feet | case |
| 10 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 feet | det |
| 11 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 directed | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ascertain | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ascertain | imperative | you not said here | the total number of toes | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Topic | ||||
| 2 | direct | participle | toes not said here | upon both feet; forward property | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.predicate»: agent=Agent upon foot=Eventuality |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
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 2
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 3 · ✓ the right answer
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
Eight
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Eight | eight | 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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