Test 2 · ★★★ · Balance in a food web
A meadow has 1000 kilograms of grass a year. Roughly how many kilograms of grasshoppers can it feed?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: meadow, many kilograms · What happens: have, feed · To what, where: 1000 kilograms
This is test 2 · ★★★ of lesson 30 «Balance in a food web» 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: A meadow has 1000 kilograms of grass a year.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 meadow | det |
| 2 | meadow | meadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | 1000 | 1000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 kilograms | nummod |
| 5 | kilograms | kilogram | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 has | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 grass | case |
| 7 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 kilograms | nmod |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 year | det |
| 9 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | a meadow | 1000 kilograms of grass | year | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kilogram=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: Roughly how many kilograms of grasshoppers can it feed?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Roughly | roughly | ADV | _ | 3 many | advmod |
| 2 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 many | advmod |
| 3 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 kilograms | amod |
| 4 | kilograms | kilogram | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 feed | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 grasshoppers | case |
| 6 | grasshoppers | grasshopper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 kilograms | nmod |
| 7 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 feed | aux |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 feed | nsubj |
| 9 | feed | feed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 feed | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feed | can | many kilograms of grasshoppers | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
About 1000
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 1000 | advmod |
| 2 | 1000 | 1000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
About 100
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 100 | advmod |
| 2 | 100 | 100 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
About 2000
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 2000 | advmod |
| 2 | 2000 | 2000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
About 500
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 500 | advmod |
| 2 | 500 | 500 | 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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