Test 10 · ★★ · The reptile house: Komodo dragons, chameleons, tortoises a…
A chameleon is 15 centimetres long. About how far can its tongue reach?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: chameleon · What happens: be
This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 88 «The reptile house: Komodo dragons, chameleons, tortoises and crocodiles» 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 chameleon is 15 centimetres long.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 chameleon | det |
| 2 | chameleon | chameleon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 long | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 long | cop |
| 4 | 15 | 15 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 centimetres | nummod |
| 5 | centimetres | centimetre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 long | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 long | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a chameleon | 15 centimetres obl:unmarked; long property | 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: About how far can its tongue reach?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | SCONJ | _ | 3 far | mark |
| 2 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 far | advmod |
| 3 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 far | aux |
| 5 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 reach | nmod:poss |
| 6 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 reach | compound |
| 7 | reach | reach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 far | nsubj |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 far | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
About 30 centimetres
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 30 | advmod |
| 2 | 30 | 30 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 centimetres | nummod |
| 3 | centimetres | centimetre | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
About 3 metres
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 3 | advmod |
| 2 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 metres | nummod |
| 3 | metres | metre | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
About 15 millimetres
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 15 | advmod |
| 2 | 15 | 15 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 millimetres | nummod |
| 3 | millimetres | millimetre | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
About 1 centimetre
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 1 | advmod |
| 2 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 centimetre | nummod |
| 3 | centimetre | centimetre | 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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