Test 3 · Counting animals: eyes, ears, hearts, trunks, tentacles, t…

«my bug book calls it a hundred-legger, so it's got 100 legs, end of» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bug book, book · What happens: call, get, be · To what, where: it, 100 legs · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 calls	punct
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 book	nmod:poss
3	bug	bug	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 book	compound
4	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 calls	nsubj
5	calls	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 calls	obj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 legger	det
8	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 legger	nummod
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 hundred	punct
10	legger	legger	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 calls	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 got	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	15 got	advmod
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 got	nsubj
14	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 got	aux
15	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 calls	conj
16	100	100	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	17 legs	nummod
17	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 got	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 end	punct
19	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 legs	conj
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 What	case
21	»	»	PUNCT	_	20 of	punct
22	What	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 end	nmod
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 right	cop
24	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 What	acl:relcl
25	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 calls	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	call in a quote	present	my bug book	it		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient
2	get in a quote	present · passive	book	100 legs and end of 100 legs and end of 100 legs		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer leg=Stimulus
3	is	present			right 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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, every centipede in the world has exactly 100 legs, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 has	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 centipede	det
4	centipede	centipede	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 has	nsubj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 world	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 world	det
7	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 centipede	nmod
8	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	10 100	advmod
10	100	100	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 legs	nummod
11	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 has	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 mate	punct
13	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 legs	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	every centipede in the world	100 legs and mate					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient

Option 2

No, all centipedes have exactly 1,000 legs instead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 have	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 centipedes	det
4	centipedes	centipede	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 have	nsubj
5	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	7 1,000	advmod
7	1,000	1000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 legs	nummod
8	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 have	obj
9	instead	instead	ADV	_	5 have	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	all centipedes	1,000 legs				instead property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

No centipede has exactly 100 legs, the pairs are always odd

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 centipede	det
2	centipede	centipede	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	5 100	advmod
5	100	100	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 legs	nummod
6	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 odd	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 pairs	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 pairs	det
9	pairs	pair	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 legs	conj
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 odd	cop
11	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	12 odd	advmod
12	odd	odd	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 has	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	no centipede						vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	100 legs and the pairs					always, odd property	tree rules

Option 4

Yes, but only the grown-up ones, babies have fewer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	9 ones	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 ones	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	9 ones	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ones	det
6	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 ones	amod
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 up	punct
8	up	up	ADP	_	6 grown	compound:prt
9	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 have	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 ones	punct
11	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 have	nsubj
12	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	fewer	few	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow up	participle							vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	present	the grown ones	fewer					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent few=Patient

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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