Test 10 · ★★★ · Olympiad: logic traps and if-then ★★★
Aisha from Glasgow: "Ken what, every bird can fly, no exceptions." Her friend points at a penguin at the zoo. How many such birds does the friend need?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bird, friend, many such birds · What happens: fly, point, need · To what, where: zoo
This is test 10 · ★★★ of lesson 193 «Olympiad: logic traps and if-then ★★★» of the world 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: Aisha from Glasgow: "Ken what, every bird can fly, no exceptions."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aisha | Aisha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Ken | nsubj |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 3 Glasgow | case |
| 3 | Glasgow | Glasgow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Aisha | nmod |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 Ken | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Ken | punct |
| 6 | Ken | Ken | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 Ken | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 fly | punct |
| 9 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 bird | det |
| 10 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fly | nsubj |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 fly | aux |
| 12 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 Ken | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 exceptions | punct |
| 14 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 15 exceptions | det |
| 15 | exceptions | exception | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 Ken | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 Ken | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Ken | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly in a quote | can | every bird | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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: Her friend points at a penguin at the zoo.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 friend | nmod:poss |
| 2 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 points | nsubj |
| 3 | points | point | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 penguin | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 penguin | det |
| 6 | penguin | penguin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 points | obl |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 zoo | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 zoo | det |
| 9 | zoo | zoo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 points | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 points | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | point | present | bird's friend | the zoo | at a penguin | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Sentence 3: How many such birds does the friend need?
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 | 4 birds | amod |
| 3 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 birds | amod |
| 4 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 need | nsubj |
| 5 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 need | aux |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 friend | det |
| 7 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 need | nsubj |
| 8 | need | need | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 need | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need | present · do-support | many such birds | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Every bird on Earth
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 bird | det |
| 2 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 Earth | case |
| 4 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 bird | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
At least ten
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 least | case |
| 2 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 ten | nmod |
| 3 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
One is enough
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 enough | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 enough | cop |
| 3 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | One | enough property | tree rules |
Option 4
A thousand
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 thousand | det |
| 2 | thousand | thousand | 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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