Test 7 · Counting animals: legs, arms, wings and tails
A caterpillar looks like it has 16 legs. How many true legs does it have?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: caterpillar, many true legs · What happens: look, have · To what, where: 16 legs
This is test 7 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
Sentence 1: A caterpillar looks like it has 16 legs.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 caterpillar | det |
| 2 | caterpillar | caterpillar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 looks | nsubj |
| 3 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 6 has | mark |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 has | nsubj |
| 6 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 looks | advcl |
| 7 | 16 | 16 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 legs | nummod |
| 8 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 has | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 looks | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | present | a caterpillar | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | have | present | caterpillar | 16 legs | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=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.
Sentence 2: How many true legs does it have?
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 | 4 legs | amod |
| 3 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 legs | amod |
| 4 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 have | nsubj |
| 5 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 have | aux |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 have | nsubj |
| 7 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 have | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present · do-support | many true legs | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
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.
Option 2
Sixteen
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sixteen | sixteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
None
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | None | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Six, at the front
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 front | punct |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 front | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 front | det |
| 5 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Six | nmod |
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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