Test 7 · The elephant house: herds, feet, food and the mouse myth
A herd has 3 mothers, 2 aunts and 4 calves. How many legs are there in the herd?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: herd, many legs · What happens: have, be · To what, where: 3 mothers, herd
This is test 7 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: A herd has 3 mothers, 2 aunts and 4 calves.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 herd | det |
| 2 | herd | herd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 mothers | nummod |
| 5 | mothers | mother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 has | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 aunts | punct |
| 7 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 aunts | nummod |
| 8 | aunts | aunt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 mothers | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 calves | cc |
| 10 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 calves | nummod |
| 11 | calves | calf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 mothers | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | a herd | 3 mothers and 2 aunts and 4 calves | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Patient |
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 legs are there in the herd?
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 | 3 legs | amod |
| 3 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 there | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 there | cop |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 herd | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 herd | det |
| 8 | herd | herd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 there | obl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 there | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | many legs | the herd | there property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
40
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 40 | 40 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
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 3 · ✓ the right answer
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
9
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 9 | 9 | 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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