Test 10 · Trains and the Underground
Count them: a freight train has 20 wagons, and each wagon carries 2 containers. How many containers?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, freight train, wagon · What happens: count, have, carry · To what, where: them, 20 wagons, 2 containers
This is test 10 of lesson 21 «Trains and the Underground» of the technology 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: Count them: a freight train has 20 wagons, and each wagon carries 2 containers.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Count | count | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Count | obj |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 has | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 train | det |
| 5 | freight | freight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 train | compound |
| 6 | train | train | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 has | nsubj |
| 7 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Count | parataxis |
| 8 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 wagons | nummod |
| 9 | wagons | wagon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 has | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 carries | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 carries | cc |
| 12 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 wagon | det |
| 13 | wagon | wagon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 carries | nsubj |
| 14 | carries | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 has | conj |
| 15 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 containers | nummod |
| 16 | containers | container | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 carries | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Count | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | count | imperative | you not said here | them = they | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | present | a freight train | 20 wagons | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wagon=Patient | ||||
| 3 | carry | present | each wagon | 2 containers | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent container=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 containers?
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 containers | amod |
| 3 | containers | container | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 containers | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
60
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 60 | 60 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
18
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 18 | 18 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
22
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 22 | 22 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
40
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 40 | 40 | 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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