Test 3 · Pests: mice in the kitchen, cockroaches, clothes moths, fl…

Count them: how is a flea different from a tick when you count legs?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, flea · What happens: count, be · To what, where: them, tick, legs

This is test 3 of lesson 397 «Pests: mice in the kitchen, cockroaches, clothes moths, fleas and head lice» 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

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	_	1 Count	punct
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	8 different	advmod
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 different	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 flea	det
7	flea	flea	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 different	nsubj
8	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Count	parataxis
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 tick	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 tick	det
11	tick	tick	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 different	obl
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 count	advmod
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 count	nsubj
14	count	count	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Count	advcl
15	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 count	obj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Count	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	count	imperative	you not said here	them = they			vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	is	present	a flea		a tick	different property	tree rules
3	count	present	you	legs			vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

A flea has 6 legs and a tick has 8

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 flea	det
2	flea	flea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	6	6	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 legs	nummod
5	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 has	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 has	cc
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 tick	det
8	tick	tick	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 has	nsubj
9	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 has	conj
10	8	8	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	a flea	6 legs					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient
2	have	present	a tick	8					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 8=Patient

Option 2

Both have 8 legs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	8	8	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 legs	nummod
4	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Both	8 legs					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient

Option 3

Both have 6 legs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	6	6	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 legs	nummod
4	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Both	6 legs					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient

Option 4

A flea has 8 legs and a tick has 6

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 flea	det
2	flea	flea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	8	8	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 legs	nummod
5	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 has	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 has	cc
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 tick	det
8	tick	tick	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 has	nsubj
9	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 has	conj
10	6	6	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	a flea	8 legs					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient
2	have	present	a tick	6					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 6=Patient

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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