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Test 2 · The aviary: the walk-through tropical house

A toucan is perched on a branch. How many of its toes point backwards?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: many · What happens: perch, point · To what, where: toucan, branch

This is test 2 of lesson 93 «The aviary: the walk-through tropical house» 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 toucan is perched on a branch.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 toucan	det
2	toucan	toucan	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 perched	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 perched	aux:pass
4	perched	perch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 branch	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 branch	det
7	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 perched	obl
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 perched	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	perch	present · passive		a toucan		a branch			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on branch=Destination

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 of its toes point backwards?

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	6 point	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 toes	case
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 toes	nmod:poss
5	toes	toe	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 many	nmod
6	point	point	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	backwards	backwards	ADV	_	6 point	advmod
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 point	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	point	present	many of branch's toes					backwards property	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1

One on each foot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 foot	case
3	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	4 foot	det
4	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 One	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Three on each foot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 foot	case
3	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	4 foot	det
4	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Three	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

None at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	None	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 None	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Two on each foot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 foot	case
3	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	4 foot	det
4	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Two	nmod

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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