Test 12 · Counting animals: legs, arms, wings and tails

A five-armed starfish has how many little eyes?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: armed starfish · What happens: have · To what, where: many little eyes

This is test 12 of lesson 40 «Counting animals: legs, arms, wings and tails» 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 starfish	det
2	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 armed	nummod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 five	punct
4	armed	armed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 starfish	amod
5	starfish	starfish	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 has	nsubj
6	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	8 many	advmod
8	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 eyes	amod
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 eyes	amod
10	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 has	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 has	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	a armed starfish	many little eyes					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient

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 · ✓ the right answer

Five, one at each arm tip

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 one	punct
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Five	conj
4	at	at	ADP	_	7 tip	case
5	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	7 tip	det
6	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tip	compound
7	tip	tip	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 one	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

One in the middle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 middle	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 middle	det
4	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 One	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

None at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	None	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 None	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Two, like a fish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 fish	punct
3	like	like	ADP	_	5 fish	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 fish	det
5	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Two	conj

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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