Test 11 · ★★ · The real animals of the river bank: the water vole, the mo…
★★★ A survey team counts animals on 3 stretches of river: 4 water voles on each stretch, and 1 otter on 2 of them. A mink kills 2 voles. How many voles and otters are left in all?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★, survey team, mink · What happens: ★, count, kill, leave · To what, where: 4 water voles, animals, 3 stretches, 2 voles, many voles, all
This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 403 «The real animals of the river bank: the water vole, the mole, the otter, the toad and the river birds» 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 survey team counts animals on 3 stretches of river: 4 water voles on each stretch, and 1 otter on 2 of them.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ★ | nsubj |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 team | det |
| 5 | survey | survey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 team | compound |
| 6 | team | team | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 counts | nsubj |
| 7 | counts | count | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 ★ | ccomp |
| 8 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 counts | obj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 stretches | case |
| 10 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 stretches | nummod |
| 11 | stretches | stretch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 animals | nmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 river | case |
| 13 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stretches | nmod |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 voles | punct |
| 15 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 voles | nummod |
| 16 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 voles | compound |
| 17 | voles | vole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 ★ | obl |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 stretch | case |
| 19 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 stretch | det |
| 20 | stretch | stretch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 voles | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 otter | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 otter | cc |
| 23 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 24 otter | nummod |
| 24 | otter | otter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 voles | appos |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 2 | case |
| 26 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 24 otter | nmod |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 them | case |
| 28 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 2 | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ★ | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | present | ★ | 4 water voles on each stretch | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | count | present | a survey team | animals | 3 stretches of river | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=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.
Sentence 2: A mink kills 2 voles.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 mink | det |
| 2 | mink | mink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 kills | nsubj |
| 3 | kills | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 voles | nummod |
| 5 | voles | vole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 kills | obj |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 kills | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | present | a mink | 2 voles | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vole=Theme |
Sentence 3: How many voles and otters are left in all?
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 voles | amod |
| 3 | voles | vole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 left | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 otters | cc |
| 5 | otters | otter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 voles | conj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 left | aux:pass |
| 7 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 all | case |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 left | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 left | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | present · passive | many voles and otters | all | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in all=Location |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
14
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 14 | 14 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
12
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
10
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
15
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 15 | 15 | NUM | NumForm=Digit 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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