Test 2 · The monkey house and the lemurs of Madagascar
«5 spider monkeys hanging off one branch, how many arms and tails is that»
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: 5 spider monkeys · What happens: hang off, be · To what, where: one branch, that
This is test 2 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 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 4 monkeys | punct |
| 2 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 monkeys | nummod |
| 3 | spider | spider | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 monkeys | compound |
| 4 | monkeys | monkey | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | hanging | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 monkeys | acl |
| 6 | off | off | ADP | _ | 8 branch | case |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 branch | nummod |
| 8 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hanging | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 arms | punct |
| 10 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 many | advmod |
| 11 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 arms | amod |
| 12 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 monkeys | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 tails | cc |
| 14 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 monkeys | conj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 that | cop |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 monkeys | nmod |
| 17 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 4 monkeys | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hang off in a quote | gerund | 5 spider monkeys and many arms and tails not said here | one branch | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent branch=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | that | 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.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
25 arms and 10 tails
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 25 | 25 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 arms | nummod |
| 2 | arms | arm | 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 arms | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
10 arms and no tails
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 arms | nummod |
| 2 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 tails | cc |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 tails | det |
| 5 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 arms | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
10 arms 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 arms | nummod |
| 2 | arms | arm | 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 arms | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
20 arms 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 arms | nummod |
| 2 | arms | arm | 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 arms | 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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