Test 10 · Counting animals: eyes, ears, hearts, trunks, tentacles, t…
Count them up: an octopus and an earthworm sit side by side in a cartoon. How many hearts together, if the worm's five pairs count as hearts?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, octopus, many · What happens: count up, sit, count · To what, where: them, side, cartoon
This is test 10 of lesson 41 «Counting animals: eyes, ears, hearts, trunks, tentacles, teeth» 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: Count them up: an octopus and an earthworm sit side by side in a cartoon.
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 | up | up | ADP | _ | 1 Count | compound:prt |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 octopus | punct |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 octopus | det |
| 6 | octopus | octopus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sit | nsubj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 earthworm | cc |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 earthworm | det |
| 9 | earthworm | earthworm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 octopus | conj |
| 10 | sit | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Count | parataxis |
| 11 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sit | obl |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 side | case |
| 13 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 side | nmod |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 cartoon | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 cartoon | det |
| 16 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sit | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Count | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | count up | imperative | you not said here | them = they | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sit | present | a octopus and a earthworm | side by side | a cartoon | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in cartoon=Location |
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 hearts together, if the worm's five pairs count as hearts?
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 | 12 count | nsubj |
| 3 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 many | nsubj |
| 4 | together | together | ADV | _ | 2 many | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 count | punct |
| 6 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 count | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 worm | det |
| 8 | worm | worm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pairs | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 worm | case |
| 10 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 pairs | nummod |
| 11 | pairs | pair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 count | nsubj |
| 12 | count | count | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 hearts | case |
| 14 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 count | obl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 count | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | count | present | many | as hearts | vn masquerade-29.6 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as heart=Attribute |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
11
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 11 | 11 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
8
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
13
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 13 | 13 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
4
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4 | 4 | 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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