Test 9 · ★★ · The aquarium: the coral reef tank
A seahorse dad's pouch holds 100 eggs, and his neighbour's holds 150. How many babies could hatch from both?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: pouch, neighbour, many babies · What happens: hold, hatch · To what, where: 100 eggs, 150
This is test 9 · ★★ of lesson 90 «The aquarium: the coral reef tank» 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 seahorse dad's pouch holds 100 eggs, and his neighbour's holds 150.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 dad | det |
| 2 | seahorse | seahorse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dad | compound |
| 3 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pouch | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 dad | case |
| 5 | pouch | pouch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 holds | nsubj |
| 6 | holds | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | 100 | 100 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 eggs | nummod |
| 8 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 holds | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 holds | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 holds | cc |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 neighbour | nmod:poss |
| 12 | neighbour | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 holds | nsubj |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 neighbour | case |
| 14 | holds | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 holds | advcl |
| 15 | 150 | 150 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 holds | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 holds | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | present | a seahorse dad's pouch | 100 eggs | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hold | present | pouch's neighbour | 150 | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 150=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 babies could hatch from both?
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 babies | amod |
| 3 | babies | baby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 hatch | nsubj |
| 4 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 hatch | aux |
| 5 | hatch | hatch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 both | case |
| 7 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 hatch | obl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 hatch | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hatch | could | many babies | from both | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.product V PP.patient»: agent=Product from both=Patient |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
250
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 250 | 250 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
50
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 50 | 50 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
200
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 200 | 200 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
150
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 150 | 150 | 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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