Test 2 · The butterfly house

How many legs does a monarch butterfly really have?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: many legs · What happens: have

This is test 2 of lesson 98 «The butterfly 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

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	9 have	nsubj
4	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 have	aux
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 butterfly	det
6	monarch	monarch	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 butterfly	compound
7	butterfly	butterfly	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 have	nsubj
8	really	really	ADV	_	9 have	advmod
9	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 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

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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Four, like a cat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 cat	punct
3	like	like	ADP	_	5 cat	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 cat	det
5	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Four	appos

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Six, though the front two are tiny

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 tiny	punct
3	though	though	SCONJ	_	8 tiny	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 two	det
5	front	front	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 two	amod
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 tiny	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 tiny	cop
8	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Six	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the front two					tiny property	tree rules

Option 3

Two, like a bird

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 bird	punct
3	like	like	ADP	_	5 bird	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bird	det
5	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Two	conj

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

Option 4

Eight long legs, like a spider

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 legs	nummod
2	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 legs	amod
3	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 spider	punct
5	like	like	ADP	_	7 spider	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 spider	det
7	spider	spider	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 legs	conj

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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