Test 11 · The monkey house and the lemurs of Madagascar
3 ring-tailed lemurs and 2 sifakas sunbathe. how many legs and tails, quick
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: 3 tailed lemurs · What happens: tail, sunbathe · To what, where: many legs
This is test 11 of lesson 86 «The monkey house and the lemurs of Madagascar» 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 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 lemurs | nummod |
| 2 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tailed | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 ring | punct |
| 4 | tailed | tail | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 lemurs | amod |
| 5 | lemurs | lemur | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 sunbathe | nsubj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 sifakas | cc |
| 7 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 sifakas | nummod |
| 8 | sifakas | sifaka | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 lemurs | conj |
| 9 | sunbathe | sunbathe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 sunbathe | punct |
| 11 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 many | advmod |
| 12 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 legs | amod |
| 13 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 sunbathe | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 tails | cc |
| 15 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 legs | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 quick | punct |
| 17 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 sunbathe | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tail | participle | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | sunbathe | present | 3 tailed lemurs and 2 sifakas | many legs and tails | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=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.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
10 legs and 5 tails
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 legs | nummod |
| 2 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 tails | cc |
| 4 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 tails | nummod |
| 5 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 legs | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
15 legs and 5 tails
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 15 | 15 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 legs | nummod |
| 2 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 tails | cc |
| 4 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 tails | nummod |
| 5 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 legs | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
20 legs and 5 tails
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 legs | nummod |
| 2 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 tails | cc |
| 4 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 tails | nummod |
| 5 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 legs | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
20 legs and 10 tails
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 legs | nummod |
| 2 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 tails | cc |
| 4 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 tails | nummod |
| 5 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 legs | conj |
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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