Exam question 3 · Olympiad: picture puzzles, colours, dates and myths ★★★

Ascertain the number of intersections produced by the grid employed in the rule of thirds.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, thirds · What happens: ascertain, produce, employ, rule · To what, where: number, intersections, grid, rule

This is exam question 3 of lesson 42 «Olympiad: picture puzzles, colours, dates and myths ★★★» of the arts course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 number	det
3	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 intersections	case
5	intersections	intersection	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 number	nmod
6	produced	produce	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 intersections	acl
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 grid	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 grid	det
9	grid	grid	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 produced	obl
10	employed	employ	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 grid	acl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 rule	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 rule	det
13	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 employed	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 thirds	case
15	thirds	third	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 rule	nmod
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the number of intersections			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Topic
2	produce	participle		intersections not said here		by the grid	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	employ	participle		the grid not said here	the rule of thirds		vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	rule		thirds				nom rule «cognition intransitive»: of=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

Nine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 2

Three

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 3

Six

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Four

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Four	four	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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