Mova0.5 pre-release⌕

☰

home / corpora / questions / Geography / Population and cities / t7

Test 7 · Population and cities

Niger's median age is under 16. What does that mean?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: median age, that · What happens: be, mean · To what, where: 16

This is test 7 of lesson 24 «Population and cities» of the geography 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: Niger's median age is under 16.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Niger	Niger	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 age	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Niger	case
3	median	median	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 age	amod
4	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 16	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 16	cop
6	under	under	ADP	_	7 16	case
7	16	16	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 16	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Niger's median age			16			tree rules

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: What does that mean?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 mean	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 mean	aux
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 mean	nsubj
4	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 mean	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present · do-support	that						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Its people live only to 16

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 people	nmod:poss
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 live	nsubj
3	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 16	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 16	case
6	16	16	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 live	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	Its people	16					vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme 16=Location

Option 2

Children there start work at 16

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 start	nsubj
2	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 Children	advmod
3	start	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 start	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 16	case
6	16	16	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 start	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	present	Children	work		16			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Half its people are younger than 16

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	3 people	det:predet
2	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 people	nmod:poss
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 younger	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 younger	cop
5	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
6	than	than	ADP	_	7 16	case
7	16	16	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 younger	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	its people					than 16; young property	tree rules

Option 4

Nobody there is older than 16

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 is	nsubj
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 is	expl
3	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 is	nsubj
5	than	than	ADP	_	6 16	case
6	16	16	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 older	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	present	Nobody			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/24-population-and-cities/t7/