Test 11 · ★★★ · The ape house: orangutans, gibbons, bonobos and how apes t…
A visitor counts 3 gibbon pairs singing duets. How many gibbons are singing?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: visitor, 3 gibbon pairs, many gibbons · What happens: count, sing · To what, where: 3 gibbon pairs, duets
This is test 11 · ★★★ of lesson 85 «The ape house: orangutans, gibbons, bonobos and how apes think» 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 visitor counts 3 gibbon pairs singing duets.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 visitor | det |
| 2 | visitor | visitor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 counts | nsubj |
| 3 | counts | count | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 pairs | nummod |
| 5 | gibbon | gibbon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pairs | compound |
| 6 | pairs | pair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 counts | obj |
| 7 | singing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 pairs | acl |
| 8 | duets | duet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 singing | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 counts | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | count | present | a visitor | 3 gibbon pairs | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pair=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sing speech: express | gerund | 3 gibbon pairs not said here | duets | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location duet=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: How many gibbons are singing?
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 gibbons | amod |
| 3 | gibbons | gibbon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 singing | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 singing | aux |
| 5 | singing | sing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 singing | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express | present · progressive | many gibbons | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
6
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
3
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
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.
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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