Test 11 · The elephant house: herds, feet, food and the mouse myth
An elephant with small ears and a rounded back is in front of you. Which kind is it most likely?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: elephant · What happens: round, be · To what, where: front, elephant
This is test 11 of lesson 83 «The elephant house: herds, feet, food and the mouse myth» 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 elephant with small ears and a rounded back is in front of you.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 elephant | det |
| 2 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 front | nsubj |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 ears | case |
| 4 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 ears | amod |
| 5 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 elephant | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 back | cc |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 back | det |
| 8 | rounded | round | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 back | amod |
| 9 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ears | conj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 front | cop |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 front | case |
| 12 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 you | case |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 front | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 front | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | round | participle | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | is | present | a elephant with small ears and a rounded back | front | of you | 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: Which kind is it most likely?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 kind | det |
| 2 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 it | cop |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 kind | nsubj |
| 5 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 6 likely | advmod |
| 6 | likely | likely | ADV | _ | 2 kind | advmod |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 kind | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | elephant | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
A small woolly mammoth
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 mammoth | det |
| 2 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 mammoth | amod |
| 3 | woolly | woolly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 mammoth | amod |
| 4 | mammoth | mammoth | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
An African savanna elephant
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 elephant | det |
| 2 | African | African | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 elephant | amod |
| 3 | savanna | savanna | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 elephant | compound |
| 4 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
An African forest elephant with giant ears
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 elephant | det |
| 2 | African | African | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 elephant | amod |
| 3 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 elephant | compound |
| 4 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 ears | case |
| 6 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 ears | amod |
| 7 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 elephant | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
An Asian elephant
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 elephant | det |
| 2 | Asian | Asian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 elephant | amod |
| 3 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 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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