Test 4 · ★★ · Coral reefs, rockpools and the seashore
Count them: a starfish lost 1 of its 5 arms and two other starfish have all 5. How many arms in the rockpool?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, starfish · What happens: count, lose, have · To what, where: them, 1, 5
This is test 4 · ★★ of lesson 9 «Coral reefs, rockpools and the seashore» 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: Count them: a starfish lost 1 of its 5 arms and two other starfish have all 5.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Count | count | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Count | obj |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 have | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 starfish | det |
| 5 | starfish | starfish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 have | nsubj |
| 6 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 starfish | acl |
| 7 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 lost | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 arms | case |
| 9 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 arms | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 arms | nummod |
| 11 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 1 | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 starfish | cc |
| 13 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 starfish | nummod |
| 14 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 starfish | amod |
| 15 | starfish | starfish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 arms | conj |
| 16 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Count | parataxis |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 5 | det |
| 18 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 have | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Count | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | count | imperative | you not said here | them = they | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lose | participle | a starfish not said here | 1 of starfish's 5 arms and two other starfish | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 1=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | have | present | a starfish | all 5 | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 5=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 arms in the rockpool?
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 arms | amod |
| 3 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 rockpool | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 rockpool | det |
| 6 | rockpool | rockpool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 arms | nmod |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 arms | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
14
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 14 | 14 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
10
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
13
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 13 | 13 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
15
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 15 | 15 | 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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