Test 3 · ★ · The insect house: ants, stick insects, tarantulas and scor…
In A Bug's Life, Flik the ant walks on two legs and uses two arms. How many legs does a real ant have?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ant, many legs · What happens: walk, use, have · To what, where: Life, two arms
This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 97 «The insect house: ants, stick insects, tarantulas and scorpions» 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: In A Bug's Life, Flik the ant walks on two legs and uses two arms.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 5 Life | case |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 Bug | det |
| 3 | Bug | Bug | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Life | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 Bug | case |
| 5 | Life | Life | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 walks | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Flik | punct |
| 7 | Flik | Flik | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Life | flat |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 ant | det |
| 9 | ant | ant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 walks | nsubj |
| 10 | walks | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 legs | case |
| 12 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 legs | nummod |
| 13 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 walks | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 uses | cc |
| 15 | uses | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 walks | conj |
| 16 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 arms | nummod |
| 17 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 uses | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 walks | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | present | the ant | a Bug's Life | on two legs | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in life=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | use | present | the ant not said here | two arms | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=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 legs does a real ant have?
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 legs | amod |
| 3 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 have | nsubj |
| 4 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 have | aux |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 ant | det |
| 6 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 ant | amod |
| 7 | ant | ant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 have | nsubj |
| 8 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 have | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present · do-support | many legs | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Eight
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Two
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Six
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Four
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word 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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