Test 11 · ★★ · The real animals of the Wild Wood: the badger, the stoat,…
★★★ A stoat's coat is white for 4 months of the year in the far north and brown for the rest. A stoat lives 3 years. For how many months in all is it brown?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★, coat, stoat, all · What happens: ★, be, live
This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 405 «The real animals of the Wild Wood: the badger, the stoat, the weasel, the ferret, field-mice and hedgehogs in winter» 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 stoat's coat is white for 4 months of the year in the far north and brown for the rest.
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 | 5 stoat | det |
| 5 | stoat | stoat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 coat | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 stoat | case |
| 7 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 white | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 white | cop |
| 9 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 ★ | ccomp |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 months | case |
| 11 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 months | nummod |
| 12 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 white | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 year | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 year | det |
| 15 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 months | nmod |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 north | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 north | det |
| 18 | far | far | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 north | amod |
| 19 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 year | nmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 brown | cc |
| 21 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 north | conj |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 rest | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 rest | det |
| 24 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 brown | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ★ | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | present | ★ | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is | present | a stoat's coat | month | white property | tree rules |
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 stoat lives 3 years.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 stoat | det |
| 2 | stoat | stoat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lives | nsubj |
| 3 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 years | nummod |
| 5 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 lives | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lives | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | a stoat | year | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Sentence 3: For how many months in all is it brown?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | For | for | ADP | _ | 4 months | case |
| 2 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 many | advmod |
| 3 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 months | amod |
| 4 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 brown | obl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 brown | case |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 brown | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 brown | cop |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 brown | nsubj |
| 9 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 brown | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | all | month | brown property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
32
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 32 | 32 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
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
36
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 36 | 36 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
24
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 24 | 24 | 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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