Test 4 · ★★ · Migration: the great journeys
An arctic tern that lives 30 years flies about 70000 km a year. About how far is that in its life?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: arctic tern · What happens: live, fly, be · To what, where: 70000 km, life
This is test 4 · ★★ of lesson 54 «Migration: the great journeys» 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: An arctic tern that lives 30 years flies about 70000 km a year.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 tern | det |
| 2 | arctic | arctic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 tern | amod |
| 3 | tern | tern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 flies | nsubj |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 lives | nsubj |
| 5 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 tern | acl:relcl |
| 6 | 30 | 30 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 years | nummod |
| 7 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 lives | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | flies | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | about | about | ADV | _ | 10 70000 | advmod |
| 10 | 70000 | 70000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 km | nummod |
| 11 | km | km | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 flies | obj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 year | det |
| 13 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 flies | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 flies | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | a arctic tern | year | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fly | present | a arctic tern | 70000 km | year | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location km=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: About how far is that in its life?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | SCONJ | _ | 3 far | mark |
| 2 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 far | advmod |
| 3 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 life | advcl |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 life | cop |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 life | mark |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 life | case |
| 7 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 life | nmod:poss |
| 8 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 life | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | tern's life | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
About 2 million km
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 3 million | advmod |
| 2 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 million | compound |
| 3 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 km | nummod |
| 4 | km | km | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
About 30000 km
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 30000 | advmod |
| 2 | 30000 | 30000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 km | nummod |
| 3 | km | km | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
About 2000 km
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 2000 | advmod |
| 2 | 2000 | 2000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 km | nummod |
| 3 | km | km | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
About 70000 km
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 70000 | advmod |
| 2 | 70000 | 70000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 km | nummod |
| 3 | km | km | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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